ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
An independent podcast examining what the U.S. Congress is doing with our money and in our names.
www.congressionaldish.com
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www.congressionaldish.com
Follow @JenBriney on Twitter
Hosts:
Update frequency:
every 17 days
Average audio length:
81 minutes
Guest interviews
Has sponsors
English
United States
352 episodes
since Sept. 1, 2012
episodic
AUDIENCE OF THIS PODCAST 🔗
~90.00% of listeners are from United States.
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US
90.00%
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KR
2.21%
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GB
1.23%
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CA
0.70%
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RO
0.61%
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IT
0.61%
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BR
0.61%
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IE
0.53%
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AU
0.53%
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CZ
0.35%
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PH
0.35%
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TW
0.26%
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IL
0.26%
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SG
0.26%
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IN
0.17%
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DE
0.17%
Others
1.15%
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LATEST EPISODE 🔗
September was the last month Congress bothered to work before the midterm elections. In this episode, we'll examine the laws signed in September, including one that significantly expands President Trump's tariff powers, the votes that revealed where members of Congress stand on the wars in Iran and…
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PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
This episode looks at two very different questions surrounding the U.S. Postal Service: how the Trump administration tried to use it to impose new requirements on mail-in voting, and whether the Postal Service itself is financially sustainable. We examine the new election-mail rule and the court fi…
Twenty-five years after 9/11, America is still sliding down the slippery slope created by the War on Terror. This episode traces how the George W. Bush, Obama, and Biden administrations built, expanded, and preserved extraordinary presidential powers in the name of fighting terrorism—and how the Tr…
Congress passed a new housing law, including an attempt to limit corporate ownership of homes. We'll also examine the Senate's summer confirmations, including Todd Blanche as Attorney General, and preview troubling provisions in the NDAA—including one that would deepen U.S.-Israeli military coopera…
The National Weather Service is one of the few government agencies that affects every American every single day. Every weather app, television forecast, hurricane warning, tornado alert, and flood prediction depends on it. In this episode, we examine what has happened to the National Weather Servic…
The Texas Hill Country flood that killed 139 people was described as a natural disaster. But after digging through state legislative hearings and Congress's oversight of FEMA, I found something else: many of the deadliest consequences weren't just caused by the weather. They were the result of poli…
June brought a massive expansion of ICE and immigrant detention, failed efforts to rein in the unauthorized war with Iran, a debate over U.S. support for Israel's actions in Lebanon, and the confirmation of two controversial lifetime judges. We examine what passed, what failed, and what comes next.…
In CD340: No More Iran War, Congress finally pushes back against President Trump's unauthorized war with Iran as Republicans join Democrats to pass War Powers resolutions rejecting the conflict. Jen breaks down those historic votes, the few laws Congress passed in May, and the Trump administration …
Children are spending more time on screens than ever before, but what is all that screen time actually doing to them? In a recent hearing, Congress heard testimony from experts who argue that social media, educational technology, and AI are reshaping childhood in ways many parents don't fully under…
April 2026 gave us a Congress that took a two-week vacation, came back to vote on war powers, Israel weapons sales, FISA surveillance, DHS funding, and whether Minnesota's clean water should be protected from mining. This episode tracks what Congress actually did — including the votes, scandals, re…
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