Last Call For Congress
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What A Day
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🗓️ 10 December 2021
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Today is the last day that Congress is scheduled to be in session for 2021. Just yesterday, the Senate voted and paved the way for Democrats to raise the debt limit so the country doesn’t default on its loans. Crooked Media’s Editor in Chief Brian Beutler joins us to catch us up on what our lawmakers have been up to all year.
And in headlines: workers at a Starbucks store in Buffalo, New York, have successfully voted to unionize, farmers in India ended their year-long protest, and the FDA approved Pfizer-BioNTech's booster shot for 16- and 17-year-olds.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday December 10th. |
| 0:07.5 | I'm Treville Anderson. |
| 0:08.8 | And I'm Priyanka Eribindi and this is what a day, the podcast that will not be funded |
| 0:12.9 | unless we raise the debt ceiling. |
| 0:14.8 | Yeah, the government doesn't realize they actually pay for this whole podcast. |
| 0:18.5 | Yeah, so we can't let the government default on its loans or realize that we have access |
| 0:22.7 | to all of their money. |
| 0:24.1 | We have got bills to pay and we need the government to pay them. |
| 0:31.4 | On today's show, Starbucks workers at one store in Buffalo, New York voted to unionize, |
| 0:36.4 | plus farmers in India have ended their year-long protests to get better prices for their produce. |
| 0:41.2 | But first, today's the last day that Congress is scheduled to be in session for 2021. |
| 0:46.1 | Lawmakers did a lot in the past year. |
| 0:48.3 | Even yesterday, the Senate voted and paved the way for Democrats to raise the debt limit |
| 0:52.1 | so the country doesn't default on its loans. |
| 0:54.6 | But they also postponed a lot of issues as well. |
| 0:57.3 | So to catch us up on what our lawmakers have been up to, we have with us again, crooked |
| 1:01.2 | media's editor-in-chief, Brian Boyler. |
| 1:03.5 | Brian, it is so great to have you back on what a day. |
| 1:06.1 | It's good to be back. |
| 1:07.4 | It's been a long time since we've chatted, but I am so excited because we have lots of |
| 1:11.3 | questions for you today. |
| 1:13.1 | So there's a lot that Congress still needs to do, obviously. |
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