The Federal Register

Civics 101

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History, Government, Society & Culture

4.2 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2018

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Show your support for Civics 101. Click here to donate: https://goo.gl/6VNE6E Today a listener opens up a rabbit hole, and we immediately jump down it. We're learning about the Federal Register, a dense, cryptic document published every single day that records all the activities of the Executive Branch. It's a lot. Joining us is Oliver Potts, the director of the Federal Register, along with Kevin Kosar of the R Street Institute and Nick Bellos of the Regulatory Review. CLICK HERE: Visit our website to see all of our episodes, donate to the podcast, sign up for our newsletter, get free educational materials, and more! To see Civics 101 in book form, check out A User's Guide to Democracy: How America Works by Hannah McCarthy and Nick Capodice, featuring illustrations by Tom Toro. Check out our other weekly NHPR podcast, Outside/In - we think you'll love it! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Civics 101 is supported in part by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
0:06.4	Tiffany? Jennifer.
0:08.9	Hello.
0:09.6	Hey, is this Jennifer?
0:11.6	Yes.
0:12.1	Hey, this is Nick Collin from Civics 101.
0:14.6	Hey, Jennifer, I'm on the line too. This is Hannah.
0:16.9	How's the next high Hannah?
0:18.4	Jennifer, you sent us an email asking us about a certain civics thing. Can you tell us what that is?
0:24.8	Yeah, the name of it is the federal register and I was wondering
0:29.1	what is the federal register and who uses it and how and why?
0:34.4	So I've done a little research on the federal register and I'm still in the dark.
0:38.0	I looked at the website and it just is the journal for the government.
0:42.8	Yeah.
0:43.2	I don't know what that means. Are they writing down, oh I saw Senators so and so talking
0:49.1	what Senators so and so today?
0:51.2	Or what is it?
0:53.8	Do you think there's like an advice column in there?
0:56.6	You know, I want their to be.
0:58.8	Ask Melania.
0:59.8	Yeah.
1:00.8	So we're going to try to get to the bottom of this.
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