The REAL Story Of How Legislation Is Made And How You Can Affect It
Making the Argument with Nick Freitas
Nick Freitas
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🗓️ 10 January 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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The Making The Argument team uses the last episode before legislative session begins to break down the important features of state legislation and how ordinary people can make their voices heard throughout the process.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, as state and federal legislatures all around the country are meeting, it is time to go behind the scenes to figure out exactly how the sausage is made. |
| 0:08.7 | Because a lot of people are operating out of the assumption that what they learned at Schoolhouse Rock is the way it works. |
| 0:14.2 | Today, what we're going to talk about is some of the specific strategies that you can use to be a more effective advocate for what you believe in, and perhaps |
| 0:21.5 | most importantly, the real revealing of how legislation comes into existence, goes through |
| 0:28.2 | the committee process, how it's killed, how it's successful, and how you can engage in this |
| 0:33.0 | process. All of that coming up on this episode. Thank you for joining us today, guys. I'm very excited for today's conversation because this is not a lot that gets covered on this topic. |
| 0:42.8 | And I think that this is something that every equipped voter needs to have when they head into the voting booth. |
| 0:48.3 | So I'm excited for this discussion with somebody who's actually involved in the process, and I can't wait to get into it. |
| 0:55.0 | Oh, and an interesting process. It is. I am Nick Freitas, member of the Virginia House of Delegates, |
| 0:59.5 | but other than that, a fairly okay guy. With me as always, my beautiful wife, Queen of the Bees, Tina. |
| 1:04.7 | Hello, everyone. And then we have our political prognosticator and resident historian, |
| 1:08.4 | Christian Hines. Hello. Nicholas Hamilton, the good |
| 1:10.9 | Hamilton, the one that doesn't like central banking. |
| 1:12.8 | I come with questions. Oh, he does. He comes |
| 1:14.6 | with a lot of questions. And then of course, our producer, Sour Patch Lids herself. |
| 1:19.1 | Lydia, how you doing? |
| 1:21.0 | I'm good. I hope you guys are as well. I'm really excited for all |
| 1:23.8 | these questions. I think that everybody has a lot of them. So I hope that you guys are |
| 1:27.6 | all following us over on Volley. I hope you're all subscribed and following our podcast on all |
| 1:33.3 | podcast platforms. So let's get into these questions. I'm stoked. Tina, I'd love for you to take |
| 1:38.1 | 60 seconds to tell us why you wanted us to do this episode because I think it's important. |
| 1:42.6 | Okay. Well, for years now, while Nick's been in the General Assembly, |
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