The Congressional Wish List

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🗓️ 23 December 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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The Senate passes a $1.7 trillion spending package, putting pressure on the House to approve it today. Disgraced crypto trader Sam Bankman-Fried arrives back in the U.S. to face fraud charges. And criminal justice advocates hail a record number of exonerations in 2022. DID YOU HEAR? “Start Here” has been nominated for two Signal Awards! You can vote for us here: https://abcaudio.com/signal-awards/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:10.2	National average 12-month savings of $793 by new customers surveyed who saved with Progressive
0:16.0	between June 2021 and May 2022.
0:18.9	Potential savings will vary.
0:20.4	It's Friday, December 23, and Christmas Shopping in Congress adds up to almost $2 trillion.
0:26.6	Start here.
0:29.9	Make your scurry to pass a spending bill before the holiday break.
0:33.8	It's pack full.
0:35.2	It was kind of a dizzying pace of, wow, this is new, wow, this is new.
0:38.4	Some of the biggest provisions don't even have dollar signs next to them.
0:41.5	We'll tell you what's in the bill.
0:43.0	He was hauled to the US in Cuffs.
0:45.0	Now he's at on bail.
0:46.3	It's a $250 million dollar personal recognitions bond, and it's an astronomical number.
0:52.1	What's next for disgraced crypto mogul, Sam Bankman-Freed?
0:56.1	And we've covered all the trends of the year except this one.
0:58.9	Not only the year of individual exonerations, but mass exonerations.
1:01.8	Why more prisoners have been exonerated than ever before?
1:07.3	From ABC News, this is Start Here.
1:10.0	I'm Brad Milky.
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