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Learn about the people, policies and politics of America"s state legislatures with NCSL"s three podcasts: "Our American States," "Across the Aisle" and the special limited series "Building Democracy."

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00:20:25

The Power of Saying No | OAS Episode 233

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2025/05/04

Defiance is often thought as a negative trait, but as our guest on this podcast explains, it can actually be a positive force both in the workplace and in our lives generally. Dr. Sunita Sah, a professor at Cornell and an organizational psychologist, is the author of “Defy: The Power of No in a World that Demands Yes,” published earlier this year.Sah’s book explores why people say yes and go along at work and in other relationships in their lives, even when they want to say no. In this conversation,

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00:29:20

Oral Health Care and Medicaid | OAS Episode 232

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2025/04/27

Oral health care for children is required in every state under Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Plan. But dental coverage for adults is optional. And while nearly every state provides some level of coverage for adults, what is covered and who is covered varies widely from state to state and even within states.Our first guest on this podcast is Ian Hedges, the director of Medicaid and Medicare program policy for the American Dental Association. Hedges explained how oral health care affects

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00:14:59

NCSL at 50: The Legislative Staff Story | OAS Episode...

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2025/04/06

This is one in a series of podcasts celebrating the 50th anniversary of the National Conference of State Legislatures. On this episode we focus on legislative staff, the approximately 30,000 professionals who keep the trains running at this nation’s legislatures.While legislative staff outnumber legislators by more than 4 to 1, their role is often poorly understood by the public and even by their own families. Yet the work they do from drafting legislation to providing bill research to keeping the

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00:23:55

Helping America Vote | OAS Episode 230

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2025/03/30

A new book published jointly by NCSL and the U.S. Election Assistance Commission is aimed at serving as a resource for election administrators, secretaries of state, state legislators and legislative staff. It will be available soon in digital form on the NCSL website. “Helping America Vote: Election Administration in the United States” was the focus of this podcast and features a discussion with Commissioners Ben Hovland and Donald Palmer.The EAC was established by the Help America Vote Act of

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00:47:00

Medicaid and the States: The Post-COVID Era | OAS...

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2025/03/16

Medicaid is a program jointly funded by the federal and state governments. It provides health care coverage to nearly 80 million people, primarily those with low incomes, people who are living with disabilities or are in long-term care. On this episode we discussed the nuts and bolts of how Medicaid is financed and how states are handling some new challenges in the post-pandemic world. The pandemic affected both who Medicaid covered and the share paid by the federal and state governments. In the

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00:21:05

Forty Years of the Women’s Legislative Network | OAS...

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2025/02/16

The Women’s Legislative Network of NCSL is celebrating its 40th anniversary. Every female state legislator in the 50 states, territories and the District of Columbia belong to the Women’s Legislative Network. The network sponsors informational briefings, hosts skill building workshops for women and opportunities for female legislators to interact. Senator Dafna Michaelson Jenet, a Democrat of Colorado and the current president of the WLN, Representative DeAnn Vaught, a Republican of Arkansas and the

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00:38:53

What Americans Think About Voting | OAS Episode 227

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2025/02/09

Since 2008, Charles Stewart III, a professor of political science at MIT, has conducted the Survey of the Performance of American Elections, asking voters in every state and Washington, D.C., about their voting experience after every presidential and midterm election. His report from that survey offers a window into how Americans voted—not who they voted for— and if they were satisfied with their voting experience. Stewart joined the podcast to offer a preview of the 2024 report, that includes

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00:10:40

ATA Oregon Split House

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2025/02/02

Power-sharing in tied legislative chambers is typically no picnic. But about 15 years ago in Oregon when the House faced a historic tie, things went so smoothly people from both sides of the aisle are still talking about it today.

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00:28:05

2025 Legislative Session Preview With Tim Storey |...

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2025/01/05

At the start of each year, we sit down with NCSL CEO Tim Storey to discuss the most important issues facing state legislatures in the upcoming session. While the November election did not bring big changes for state legislatures—there was minimal turnover at both the legislative and executive levels—the big change in the federal government may mean significant changes in the state-federal relationship.State budgets, which determine much of what states can do in the new year, are stable in most

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00:38:02

Looking at Nuclear Energy’s Future | OAS Episode 225

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2024/12/15

Nuclear energy plays a significant role in our national energy supply picture and is seen by some as an invaluable piece of a future clean energy system. About 20% of the nation's energy supply comes from nuclear generation at more than 90 reactors and some experts believe the nation needs another 200 gigawatts of electricity from nuclear generation in the next 25 years.On this podcast, we spoke with Jake Kincer, a program manager at Clear Path, a center-right think tank focused on accelerating

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00:19:24

Some Friendly Advice for New Legislators | OAS...

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2024/12/01

About 1,000 new lawmakers were elected in November’s election and will be joining their legislatures in the new year. Every legislature is different, of course, but we asked two veteran legislators to offer a little advice on a few issues that likely apply in most legislatures.Sen. Karen Keiser (D) from Washington state and Rep. Walker Thomas (R) from Kentucky shared some of their experiences as new lawmakers and advice on working with the media, responding to constituents and speaking on the

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00:38:17

Wildfire, Utilities and Mitigation Plans | OAS...

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2024/11/17

Massive wildfires in the U.S. have caused widespread damage in recent decades. The Smokehouse Creek Fire in Texas this year, the Marshall Fire in Colorado in 2021 and a series of fires in California in 2020 that were the worst in the state's history are just a few examples. Over the past few decades, the U.S. has spent more than a billion dollars annually to fight wildfires, including $3.5 billion in 2022.In the past few years, legislators concerned about this trend have asked utilities to provide

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01:05:55

Tackling Affordability and Outcomes in Higher...

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2024/11/03

Recent polls find that many Americans have declining confidence in higher education, in large part because of the levels of student debt, the cost of college and concerns about uneven student outcomes. To better understand these challenges, NCSL formed a Task Force on Higher Education Affordability and Student Outcomes in 2022. The group has now issued its report. The co-chairs of the task force – Senators Ann Millner (R) of Utah and Michael Dembrow (D) of Oregon – talked with us about what they

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00:28:45

Election 2024: State Legislative Races and Ballot...

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2024/10/27

On this episode, we sat down with two election experts from NCSL to discuss the state legislative races and statewide ballot measures in the Nov. 5 election. Ben Williams, NCSL’s associate director of Elections and Redistricting, discussed the 5,508 legislative seats on ballots in 44 states, more than 78% of all legislative seats nationwide. He also explained how the outcomes could affect legislative control in the states, overall state control and veto-proof majorities in some states. Helen Brewer

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00:17:31

NCSL at 50: Evolution of the Legislature | OAS...

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2024/10/20

This is one of the series of shows this year and next reflecting on the 50th anniversary of NCSL. For this episode, our focus is the legislative institution and how today’s legislatures evolved over the last 400 years.Guests include historian Pev Squire, who sketches out how legislatures developed both from the colonial assemblies and from the territorial legislatures. We also spoke with three people who have spent considerable time in legislatures and given a great deal of thought to the

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00:35:50

Legislatures Focused on AI in 2024 | OAS Episode 219

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2024/09/29

Artificial intelligence, most broadly thought of as the use of computer systems to perform tasks that normally require human intelligence, is being employed in a wide array of ways, from self-driving cars to health care. But concerns about the potential misuse and unintended consequences of AI is prompting legislatures around the country to study the issue and in many cases, pass legislation.In 2024, NCSL is tracking more than 400 pieces of legislation related to AI. This year at least 45 states,

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00:30:05

The Debate Over Weight-Loss Drugs | Sept. 8, 2024

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2024/09/08

A class of drugs that are used in the treatment of type 2 diabetes and obesity are becoming increasingly popular as a weight-loss drug. However, the high cost of these GLP-1 drugs—the annual list price is around $12,000—has posed a dilemma for states as they decide whether to cover the drugs in their own state health plans, Medicaid and possibly require private insurers to cover the drugs. On this episode, we get perspectives from three people involved in the debate: Kristen Niakan, a pharmacy

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00:21:49

A Lesson in Civics | OAS Episode 217

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2024/08/18

Americans of all ages do not score well on surveys of civic knowledge. One recent survey found a large majority of respondents could not pass a basic civics literacy test and another indicated a third of respondents could not name all three branches of government. And testing of eighth graders in the U.S. and other industrialized countries also reported a decline in civics proficiency.The vast majority of states, however, do require at least one course in civics and every state has some form of

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00:18:00

NCSL Turns 50 | OAS Episode 216

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2024/08/04

This podcast is the first of several to observe the 50th anniversary of NCSL. The organization has been an integral part of the change in state legislations over the last half century. NCSL provides research to the states on myriad public policy topics, offers a unified voice in Washington where it lobbies on behalf of the states, and serves as a convener of scores of meetings every year in person and virtually to help legislators and legislative staff from across the nation share ideas and

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00:10:16

Oregon Campaign Finance Reform ATA Episode 15

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2024/07/28

After a tsunami of campaign spending on the 2022 governor’s race in Oregon – a record-breaking $70 million – a broad coalition and lawmakers worked together to pass the state’s first campaign finance reform this spring. Legislators scrambled during a short 5-week session to keep everyone at the table. Otherwise, it was shaping up to be a costly and confusing fight over campaign finance reform at the ballot box this fall with two competing measures. This episode of Across the Aisle examines how it

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