About Inside Government

"Inside Government" is a one-hour weekly radio program produced by the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE).  The program can be heard nationally on demand at www.federalnewsradio.com and 1500 AM in the Washington, D.C., area at 10:00 a.m. on Fridays.  The program also airs on News Talk 940 WMAC in Macon, Ga., and KSL Newsradio 102.7 FM and 1160 AM in Salt Lake City, Utah. "Inside Government" is hosted by Ward Morrow, AFGE's Assistant General Counsel.  The program features interviews and commentary on a wide range of subjects that impact the lives and livelihoods of federal and D.C. government workers and the general public and features political leaders, journalists, AFGE members, leaders of other unions, celebrities and representatives from nonprofit organizations. 

Previous shows have featured guests such as AFGE National President John Gage, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney, Washington, D.C., Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.), Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean, "Newsweek" columnist Eleanor Clift, White House Press Corps member Helen Thomas, former OPM Director Linda Springer, former Congressman Tom Davis (R-Va.), former U.S. Comptroller General David Walker, Senator Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.), Governor Ted Strickland (D-Ohio), Congressman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), "The Weekly Standard" Executive Editor Fred Barnes, former Texas Congressman Tom DeLay, USA Today Washington Bureau Chief Susan Page, The Wall Street Journal Washington Bureau Chief Gerald Seib, former Maryland Lieutenant Governor Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), Congressman Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), 2008 Democratic Presidential Candidates John Edwards and Bill Richardson, Senator Mark Warner (D-Va.), Congressman Tim Bishop (D-N.Y.), former Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones (D-Ohio), Congressman Mike Arcuri (D-N.Y.), political analyst Paul Begala, Congressman Marion Berry (D-Ark.), Congressman Frank Pallone (D-N.J), Congressman Bob Filner (D-Calif.), Congressman Alan Mollohan (D-W.Va.), Congressman Jerry McNerney (D-Calif.), Democratic National Committee Vice Chair Susan Turnbull, former Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), MSNBC's "Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough, NBC Political Director Chuck Todd, MSNBC "1600 Pennsylvania Avenue" host David Shuster, Congresswoman Diane Watson (D-Calif.), and Congressman Elijah Cummings (D-Md.).

• AFGE represents more than 600,000 federal and Washington, D.C. government workers in Washington, D.C., and around the country, making it the largest federal employee union.
• There are more than 750,000 federal employees in Washington, D.C.
• Federal News Radio is one of the most popular online news stations in the country, according to the Baltimore Sun/New York Times Syndicate.
• "Inside Government" is also available to more than 70 million iPod users through Apple's iTunes music download software.  The program is available via podcast, located here.  Please note users must install iTunes on their computers before accessing "Inside Government" via podcast. 

For more information, please contact Jason Fornicola at 202-639-6448 or InsideGovernment@afge.org.  

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