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The On the Hill: Breaking Down DC podcast is a collection of sharing more about what’s happening in DC without the bias, ways for you to get involved with the US government, and interviews with friends, colleagues who can help pull back the proverbial curtain of Washington, DC. Katherine Getty, host of the OTH podcast, is a 10-year Washingtonian who lives and breathes politics.
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Hi, and welcome to the on the Hill podcast with me your host, Katherine Getty. Each Thursday, I'll peel back the curtain of what happens in Washington, from breaking down current events without bias, to interviews with fellow political nerds, and even and maybe most importantly, ways for you to get involved with our US government. Welcome back to another episode of The on the Hill podcast with me your host, Katherine Getty, thank you so much for joining today's episode. If you are listening in real time, it's the middle of July hot as heck in DC. In is also season one finale for the on the Hill podcast. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, dear listener, for tuning in each week over the last year produced 26 different episodes from all different topics. And today is a little bit of a special recap episode, I want to highlight a few episodes just to remind you that if you haven't listened to them yet, I also want to talk a little bit more about one topic that given everything that's happening in 2024. I want to remind you about and then I want to give you a preview of what's happening next. So without further ado, some of those episodes. So I just want to remind you, this podcast was born out of the idea that, yeah, we watch Schoolhouse Rock in school. But that's not how a bill becomes a law. And there's much more to our government than just a bill becoming a law. And so my hope is, this is a topic I love so much. I wanted to share it with you so that you can engage with this constitutional republic, in your own way. And so I thought I could do that in a couple of different ways. One I do these explainer episodes, I call them the explain to me this. We did episode five on the House of Representatives, episode six on the Senate, episode seven on the executive branch, Episode 11 and 1311 being on the Supreme Court because I felt like that episode needed to be on its own and then 13 on the rest of the judicial branch as a whole. And then I did something and this is you know, I did these episodes on government funding or what are the reauthorization? What are those things that are happening programs in the US government that need to be reviewed by Congress? And what is that process like, also covered the Federal Aviation administration's reauthorization, Say that five times fast, the National Defense Authorization Act NDAA, that works to not only authorize programs within the defense, but kind of sets different policy areas within it. I talked about kind of some of the things that we see in DC have, sometimes there's a lot of lack of decorum and Congress these days, and how we can be disagreeable, or disagree without being disagreeable on episode 20. Give some advice, if you're ever going to visit DC. That was kind of a fun one on episode 14. And then I covered kind of some advice if you're if you know someone who's coming up for an internship in Episode 19, as well as holidays and much more. But something I really wanted to highlight and we're gonna pull a clip from, you'll get to hear more from this episode. That was a fairly new early episode. And it was episode four, let's vote. But first, let's get registered. I think it's so important in this election year, you can start to feel it. After July 4, it's starting to tension starts to build in Washington DC as we barreled towards the election on November 5. But I just want to remind you about how to get registered to vote. What are those deadlines? It's gonna take some time. But without further ado, here's that clip. You know, I think understanding that history of we talk a lot about constitutional rights of understanding that it wasn't really laid out, it left it really to the states from the Constitution. And the States didn't get it really right for a very long time. And then you saw these amendments come that ensured and, you know, while states still have the ability to regulate their elections, the Constitution does talk about congressional election. So that's an interesting caveat. I won't go too far into that. But I think it's under it's important that we understand some of that history. Now. That is a, as I said, a very abridged version of voting in the United States and does not cover all the issues but gives you kind of an understanding of maybe we're all these where things are rooted in and why states have so much power and regulating how voting happens. So second, giving you the history in the first, in the second section, we're going to talk about logistically, how do you find your state's requirements now, I started doing some like Googling and you can find a lot of different websites. I think what I would caution you or encourage you to do is, make sure to understand who maybe is supporting it. That doesn't matter if it's on one side of the AI aisle or not. I think understanding maybe some of the language that you'll see understanding maybe some of how they frame things. And it's not a bad thing or another, but I think it's important that we have eyes wide open. But you can see, there's vote.gov, there's vote.org, there's a ton of organizations that will say, Okay, what state are you living in? And we'll lay out all the necessary requirements. There's often in many states, online registration, mail, in registration, in person registration, I know that, you know, I've lived in Florida, and I've also lived in DC, and I've been able to register to vote as I got my driver's license. So sometimes that's an option. There's also National Voter Registration days, I think it's typically in September. But I think this is it's, as we're going into 2024, let's get ahead of the curve. Let's get registered to vote. I think on those websites, it's really important to highlight Okay, when are the deadlines to register to vote, some states allow you to register day of and vote. Some require you to register ahead of time and there's a 30 day period or 45 day period. I think it's just important that you understand what those deadlines are so that you're able to participate fully in the primary season, like I referenced at the beginning of the episode, or may that be local, state federal elections, knowing the deadlines and understanding Okay, these are the deadlines, or when is the primary? Well, when is the general so that you have that time to do research on the different ballot measures because ballot measures I feel like are in sometimes hieroglyphics it's very confusing to read. But I think it's important that you have that time to understand, okay, this is my runway. But I will be honest, this takes a lot of time. And on the list of 1000 things that are on your to do list, it feels like physic, I'll get to that tomorrow. But then those deadlines happen, and you're not able to vote. And there's nothing worse and maybe this is the nerd me there's nothing worse than watching election come in, and see it be so so close, which I would venture to guess many elections in 2024 will be be so so close. And you didn't vote, you didn't let your voice be heard. You didn't engage in the process. And I think at that point, you're left with x time of how long that person is in office to see what happens to give them a chance. It's not always going to be easy to give that person said a chance. But don't let yourself have that feeling of I didn't register to vote, so I can't vote. There's only worse. Thanks for listening again, if you've if you've listened to before, if you haven't, go back listen to episode forum for a talk about some of the history of voting in the US as well. But I think it's so important that we take the time to revisit it, especially with deadlines to register to vote coming up in many states. So I don't want you to miss that opportunity. Because voting is a part of that voting is a part of engaging with our, our, our government, I think it's so important. So what are we going to see on next season's episode season two of the on the Hill podcast. I have long been teasing interviews. I have some friends that have graciously agreed to be interviewed on this podcast. So I'm on campaign finance, I'm on kind of procedural rules. And I promise I'm gonna get those those done. I that is definitely an on me thing of getting it all scheduled. So I'll get those scheduled up in season two, but I think it's important for me to hear from you. What do you want to hear? What is something that you're like? I don't quite understand this, or could you cover more like this? It's really important. So
I'll be putting some polls up on my Instagram where my Instagram for the podcast is on the Hill DC podcast. My personal handle is at Katherine Getty. I thank you so much for tuning in over the last year or whenever you started tuning in. I hope that this podcast for you is a quick little refresher on something that's happening within the US government. I think it's something I love so much getting to share with you it is a joy to record this episode these episodes. It's a joy to put it out into the universe and see what happens with it. So thank you so much. Before we wrap this episode, I do want to do some thank yous. I want to first thank my family and friends for always supporting me along this journey. I love podcasting so much some days more than others because let's be honest, we all have that in our hobbies. I find this to be an outlet where I get to share something I love so much and I'm so grateful for my Tire support system that listens every single week and gives me all the feedback. I also want to shout out upstart or podcast networks Chase and Shawn. Thank you week after week. Sean is my fearless producer who edits every episode listens to me mess up 1000 times Chase, the CEO of absorber podcast networks took a chance on me and I am so grateful for that. I love getting to work with them. If you're interested in creating a podcast, you should definitely reach out to them. As always, thank you so much for tuning in. And I shared this last week. But if you haven't listened to a live fourth episode, which, even if the date is pass, it's really interesting. So go back and listen to episode 26. But I will be taking a summer break over July, just with scheduling and everything like that it's going to be a little bit easier. But don't worry, I'll be back in August is my goal. We'll see if that holds. That's my goal. I because I want to do a recap of the Republican National Convention that is happening next week in Milwaukee, as well as the Democratic National Convention that's happening in August in Chicago. I gotta give you my hot takes on those two things, as well as see what Congress is up to. There's less than six legislative weeks left in the year. So there's gonna be a lot to happen in a little bit of time. So you definitely gotta come back this fall. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for tuning in. If you haven't liked, like and subscribe to this podcast, so when it comes back after summer break, it'll be right in your inbox on Thursdays. Have a great week. Have a great summer. As always, thanks so much.
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