Speechwriting Secrets From The Senate.

Presents a speech delivered by Pete Weissman, a speechwriter and Deputy Communications Director for U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-Wash.) to the Washington Speechwriters Roundtable in Washington (D.C.) about speechwriting. Tips to writing a speech; How a speech should not have a lot of policy content that the audience may not understand; Suggestion to know the audience who will be hearing the speech; How the media needs to have a sound bite which is a short, clear quote that summarizes the point of the speech.