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Congressional Dish

CD337: March 2026 — At War, On Vacation

Congressional Dish

Jennifer Briney

News, Government, Politics

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Congress took multiple vacations during a DHS shutdown, failed to check an unauthorized war with Iran, and passed just two bills—both honoring the dead. Meanwhile, a bipartisan majority voted to keep misconduct investigations against themselves secret. This episode exposes a month of dysfunction—and the real consequences of a Congress that isn't doing its job. View the show notes on our website at https://congressionaldish.com/cd337-march-2026-at-war-on-vacation Please Support Congressional Dish – Quick Links Contribute monthly or a lump sum via PayPal Support Congressional Dish via Patreon (donations per episode) Send Zelle payments to: Donation@congressionaldish.com Send Venmo payments to: @Jennifer-Briney Send Cash App payments to: $CongressionalDish or Donation@congressionaldish.com Use your bank's online bill pay function to mail contributions to: 5753 Hwy 85 North, Number 4576, Crestview, FL 32536. Please make checks payable to Congressional Dish Thank you for supporting truly independent media!

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0:00.0

And so on the Republican side, that's where the support came from, except for Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky.

0:06.4

He was the only Republican to vote against Trump's illegal war, which means supporting Donald Trump's illegal war were every single Republican in the Senate who was not named Rand Paul.

0:20.5

Over in the House of Representatives, on March 5th, the House voted 219 to 212 to kill a resolution

0:28.0

that would have ordered the president to remove our armed forces from unauthorized hostilities

0:33.1

in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Only two Republicans voted to stop the war,

0:38.9

and that would be Warren Davidson of Ohio

0:40.9

and Thomas Massey of Kentucky.

0:43.0

And so if you are represented by a House Republican

0:45.4

named anything else,

0:47.4

that means your Republican officially approves

0:49.7

of the Iran War.

0:50.7

I am so damn tired of being lied to.

0:59.2

I don't think I can deny it anymore.

1:07.2

You can't stick to your story if you think it flies.

1:15.6

But I'm not going to buy it anymore.

1:21.6

Hello, my friend, and thank you for listening to the 337th episode of Congressional Dish.

1:27.0

I'm a host Jennifer Briney.

1:28.7

And today's episode is going to be a summary of what Congress did in March of 26. And this won't

1:33.7

take long because most of the actions I have to tell you about were failures to act. And this is

1:39.6

largely because, in keeping with a shameful pattern in this Congress, Congress was on vacation for an

1:45.5

unacceptable amount of time in the month of March. Unacceptable because due to their failure to

1:51.1

complete their most basic task of funding the government last year by September, well,

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