NCSL Podcasts

After a tsunami of campaign spending on the 2022 governor’s race in Oregon—a record-breaking $70 million—a broad coalition of lawmakers worked together to pass the state’s first campaign finance reform this spring....

State Rep. Kimberly Moser, a longtime neonatal and intensive care nurse, decided it was time to bring the best minds together to improve the odds for Kentucky mothers and babies. The result of months of research and discussion yielded a range of...

A growing number of states are trying to find what would keep children safe online without hindering constitutional rights to privacy, access and free speech.

Texas Senator Judith Zaffirini has broken state records by a long shot. She has cast more than 72-thousand consecutive votes. She has had a perfect attendance record—except that one time she skipped on purpose to make a point. She has...

NCSL’s yearlong Legislator Police Academy brought together lawmakers from very different backgrounds to work across the aisle and across the country on policy topics related to police accountability. In this episode, we learn how the...

Sometimes, the aisle lawmakers work across isn’t the one that separates the two parties. It’s the divide between rural and urban. That’s what happened in Colorado when urban voters narrowly passed a plan to reintroduce the...