Gavel In (Preview)

Welcome to Gavel In, a limited-run explainer podcast series designed especially to mentor new Members Elect of the incoming 119th Congress, their staff, and families, to help them successfully set up their new office, team, and Washington home base with ease.

Gavel In augments their official New Member Orientation and breaks down complex topics in short, easy-to-understand lessons on House Floor operations, office structure and hiring, budgeting, technology, security, ethics, and also the intricacies of parliamentary procedure, rules, and how a bill becomes a law. 

Gavel In is your New Member Orientation study buddy, with just-in-time, deeply researched accessible explainers on the ins and outs of working in Congress.

What is Gavel In?

Gavel In is a limited-run explainer podcast series designed especially to mentor new Members Elect of the incoming 119th Congress, their staff, and families, to help them successfully set up their new office, team, and Washington home base with ease.

Speaker 1: 00:07

Welcome to Gavel In. We've created the show for incoming house freshmen of the 119th Congress, your spouses, and your future staff as an off the Hill resource to supplement your official and new member orientation onboarding. We want you to be extra set up for success in your new career in Congress.

Speaker 2: 00:25

We're your hosts, Aubrey Wilson and Taylor J. Swift, two recovering house staffers from both sides of the aisle who share a love for the institution. We're dedicated in supporting its ongoing evolution through our work at POPVOX Foundation. We're a nonpartisan nonprofit that works to inform and empower people and make government work better for everyone. Over the course of our Gavel In series, some of our episode highlights will include firsthand advice on staffing up for freshman offices, the ins and outs of the member representational allowance, which is the office budget, how to build a rapport and it, which is the office budget, how to build a rapport and relationships across the chamber, even navigating communication wins to your district back home. We also get into some of the wonkier stuff, the rules of the house, how to be effective on committee, and even top best practices for engaging oversight of the executive branch.

Speaker 2: 01:15

Be sure to go to our website popvox.org/gavel where the episode page has extra resources to make sure that you and your team are set up for success both in DC and in the district. Podcast is in session. Let's gavel in.