The work Congress could be doing
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🗓️ 24 October 2023
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Without a speaker in the House of Representatives, Congress isn’t getting much work done. That includes progress on the farm bill, which is up for renewal this year. We’ll get into what potential cuts to the farm bill could mean and some of the bill’s past shortcomings. Plus, a new study found that the West Antarctic ice sheet will continue to melt faster despite serious action on climate change. Also, we say goodbye to a record holder who was a very good boy.
Here’s everything we talked about:
- “House Ag Dems fight farm bill cuts” from Politico
- “Introducing “How We Survive: The Worth of Water”’ from Marketplace
- “Crop insurance costs soar over time, reaching a record high in 2022″ from Environmental Working Group
- “Faster Melting of West Antarctic Ice Sheet Is ‘Unavoidable’” from Bloomberg
- “Jump scares are declining in horror movies — but the scariest remain” from The Washington Post
- “Bobi, world’s oldest dog ever, dies at 31 (or about 217 in dog years)” from ABC News
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| 0:00.0 | Ms Adams if you're ready I think we should we should begin because I have to go get my COVID shot and and my flu shot. |
| 0:06.0 | I got a flu shot today I did not get the COVID shot yet I need to but yes let's do the show. |
| 0:10.0 | Yes. all right. All right. |
| 0:13.0 | Hey everybody, I'm Kai Rizdahl. |
| 0:18.0 | Welcome back to Make Me Smart. |
| 0:20.0 | Where we make today makes sense. |
| 0:22.0 | And I'm Kimberly Adams. Thank you everyone for where we make today makes sense. |
| 0:23.2 | And I'm Kimberly Adams. |
| 0:24.2 | Thank you everyone for joining us on this Monday, |
| 0:26.5 | October the 23rd. |
| 0:29.6 | All right, we'll do some news, some smiles, |
| 0:32.4 | and what are you, you're talking farm bill what are we doing |
| 0:35.6 | on the farm bill nothing which is exactly the issue |
| 0:39.8 | I mean I did not play that as a straight line. |
| 0:45.0 | So nothing is not technically accurate. |
| 0:50.0 | But the Farm Bill is one of the many things that is expiring as Congress is the cluster that it is and or the House I should say specifically the House Republicans is as we we point. But there is business of government that needs to be done. |
| 1:07.0 | The Farm Bill is a massive piece of legislation up for renewal every five years. |
| 1:12.0 | It's about to expire this controls things like snap |
| 1:16.3 | benefits and crop insurance and food lunch programs and many things related to climate change things that like you know are the |
| 1:27.8 | bread and butter literally of how we get food in this country that matter a lot for our economy as well as for our stomachs. |
| 1:37.8 | So and health and poverty and great number of things. |
| 1:41.6 | So anyway, Politico has an ag newsletter that had a |
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