Episode 347: Biden Orders Congress To Snuff Out Rail Strike
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Justin Robert Young
4.6 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2022
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Virginia Congressman Donald McEachin dead at 61.
After negotiating a peace between rail worker unions and companies in the fall, Joe Biden saw his pact failed to win approval of the workers. Now a strike is looming and Biden is going against labor to stop it via congressional power.
Warnock uses Walker's own words against him.
Government funding is facing a big deadline with transfer of power in the House looming. Jen Briney (Congressional Dish) helps break down what will happen.
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| 0:00.0 | This is made possible by Dustin Campbell, Oh Them Bones, Daily Tech News Show, Andy Beach, Nick Wood, and Craig. |
| 0:13.0 | Politics. Politics. Politics. Politics. |
| 0:17.0 | Politics. Politics. Hello and welcome everybody to the politics politics program for November 30th |
| 0:40.1 | 2022 we're coming to the end of November, the beginning of the end of 22 in general. My name is Justin, |
| 0:48.3 | Robert Young joining you from what might be the last great weather day in 2022 in Central Texas. |
| 1:00.7 | We got a lot to talk to you about including Joe Biden making the I would have to say |
| 1:08.3 | strange announcement that he is calling on Congress to end a potential rail strike. |
| 1:17.0 | The unions and the railroads, which Joe Biden had seemingly mediated a deal between |
| 1:26.6 | before the midterms. Well that deal was rejected they haven't been able to |
| 1:32.2 | come up with one sense, and now Joe Biden looking to |
| 1:36.7 | Congress to use their authority to stop it, not exactly a pro-union move. We have a very interesting if not humorous Raphael Warnock |
| 1:49.7 | ad coming up and we going to talk about the funding of the government. It is |
| 1:57.2 | something that only really winds up getting a lot of news when there's the threat of a government shutdown. |
| 2:05.4 | However, it is, to be quite honest, the bare necessity of a Congress even existing. They have to fund the government. |
| 2:15.8 | Well, we got a deadline on that coming up in the month of December. So not only |
| 2:21.7 | are we going to go through all the details there, we're going to talk to somebody who spends more time reading these bills than anyone else I know, the host of Congressional Dish, Jen Briny. |
| 2:36.8 | We will also have a Ron Desantis watch. |
| 2:40.4 | Before we get going though a little piece of sad news very very sad news |
| 2:47.0 | Virginia Congressman Donald McGeetian is dead at the age of 61. |
| 2:53.0 | That is only weeks after winning a fourth term, |
| 2:55.3 | representing all of Richmond, |
| 2:56.5 | parts of Henrico and Chesterfield counties |
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