Jennifer Briney analyzes the actions of Congress that are generally ignored by the corporate media, delivering the information from the perspective of a snarky, fed-up taxpayer who bears no allegiance to any political party or ideology.Congressional Dish exposes the stories drowned out by the partisan noise in the US Congress.

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The outgoing Congress passed 10,000 pages of laws as they were walking out the door; Jen has to read that!Jen and I meet at a Podcast movement in 2014 in Dallas TX, we stayed at cheap hotel next door to the host hotelJen gets a free ticket to Podcast Movement because she does the orientation for newbies; she gets to be the camp counselor for all the freshmenJen just started the "travel full time" lifestyle; they are giving away all of the IKEA furniture and dumping the expensive rent since they were hardly there anyway2008 when President Obama was elected Jen cried happy tears of joy; then the next 8 years were a constant disappointmentNAFTA was renamed and changed on 1 Jan 2021--nobody heard about it on the newsNGOs and what those guys are up to?--funded by the government; but not government, government surrogates that promote the World Trade SystemQanon is an Arg, what's an ARG?Biden is a little bit better than Trump; At least Biden will work on the environment and the climateObama was trying to oust the leadership in Syria; Hillary Clinton promised to establish a no fly zone in Syria; Syria invited Russia to help them fight the U.S.--so Trump kinda stopped World War 3...no big dealWhat is China doing? They are in the WTS but they don't follow the rules; The World Trade System rules say that multinational corporations should be allowed to profit as much as possible without "local interference"China basically controls lots of industries with their government; it's a hybrid model where they are in the market economy; but the companies are state controlledThe Chinese play a long game; 100-year plan long game; oh yeah need some need roads? Bridges? High Speed Rail System? We will give you those; all we want is control of this port for 99 years--DEAL!Another game that China plays is they loan a country money; once they are in debt to the point that they can never pay back; they use that leverage to get the country to play ballWhat can we do about the environment? We can draw down the legacy load of carbon in the atmosphereSocial media is using the engagement model to make money and is causing real damage to humans; Humane Technology wants to fix that

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Link to Episode 83: Jen's 1st Episode from the Way Back