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This is Jack here in Washington, D.C.

And after six months of applying and more than 100 job applications, I still do not have a full-time job.

Oh, this podcast was recorded at 12.53 pm central time on Thursday, November 2nd, 2023.

Things may have changed by the time you hear this, but I will still be applying all over and hoping for some good news soon.

All right, enjoy the show.

Oh, I hope this ship comes in soon.

I hope so, man.

Yeah, I graduated during the recession and look, I made it through.

Hey, there. It's the NPR politics podcast. I'm Ashley Lopez. I cover voting.

I'm Tom Bowman. I cover the Pentagon.

And I'm Susan Davis. I cover politics.

And today we're going to take a look at Congress where there's always seemingly something going on.

We'll start in the Senate where a battle continues to wage over appointing military leadership.

Senator Tommy Tuberville, a Republican from Alabama is holding things up much to the continued annoyance of the rest of the Senate and increasingly his own conference.

So why don't you tell us the backstory here? What's he up to?

So Senator Tuberville has used his power to block now hundreds of military promotions and appointments.

And it is absolutely nothing to do with the military or national security.

It's been an active protest against the Biden administration's abortion policy as it pertains to service members.

After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade and many states have now enacted essentially near total bans on abortion services.

The Biden administration announced a policy that would allow service members to time off and reimbursement if they had to travel out of state to receive abortion services.

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