CQ Roll Call Policy and Politics

The House adopted its rules package for the 117th Congress on Monday. The rules remove fiscal constraints on deficit-increasing legislation as long as it is related to the COVID-19 response or climate change. CQ Roll Call’s David Lerman and Jennifer Shutt discuss what the rules change means and the rift it exposes between moderate and progressive Democrats. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...

The 117th Congress is under way, and it is already weird. A time usually filled with ceremony, celebration and at least a faint trace of optimism is clouded over by the realities of the COVID-19 pandemic, the spectacle of members of Congress attempting to overturn the results of certified elections and the uncertainty of who will even be in charge of the Senate, depending on the results of two dra...

While many of us might want to put 2020 in the rear view mirror, CQ Roll Call's three award winning photographers documented the year that was from impeachment (remember that?), the pandemic, Black Lives Matter and so much more. Jason Dick sits down with Bill Clark, Tom Williams and Caroline Brehman. They pick out their favorite photo and explain why and what went into getting the image. Learn mor...

The late evangelist Rev. Billy Graham, known as America's pastor, was as world famous as the presidents who sought face time him. But after a friendship with Richard Nixon affected that image, Graham backed away from the political spotlight. His son has chosen a different path. Mary C. Curtis speaks with the Reverend Franklin Graham. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Congress has passed the fiscal year 2021 spending bill to fund the federal government through September next year. CQ Roll Call’s Mark Satter breaks down what you need to know. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

 Congress has passed the fiscal year 2021 spending bill to fund the federal government through September next year. CQ Roll Call’s Rachel Oswald breaks down what you need to know. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

 Congress has passed the fiscal year 2021 spending bill to fund the federal government through September next year. CQ Roll Call’s Dean DeChiaro breaks down what you need to know. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

CQ Roll Call’s David Lerman and Jennifer Shutt discuss the $1.4 trillion spending package, breaking down what’s in it and where the $900 billion in COVID-19 relief is going. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Congress has passed the fiscal year 2021 spending bill to fund the federal government through September next year. CQ Roll Call’s Jim Saksa breaks down what you need to know. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Congress has passed the fiscal year 2021 spending bill to fund the federal government through September next year. CQ Roll Call’s Jim Saksa breaks down what you need to know about housing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Congress has passed the fiscal year 2021 spending bill to fund the federal government through September next year. CQ Roll Call’s Jessica Wehrman breaks down what you need to know. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Congress has passed the fiscal year 2021 spending bill to fund the federal government through September next year. CQ Roll Call’s Joseph Morton breaks down what you need to know. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

 Congress has passed the fiscal year 2021 spending bill to fund the federal government through September next year. CQ Roll Call’s Ellyn Ferguson breaks down what you need to know about the agriculture department. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Congress has passed the fiscal year 2021 spending bill to fund the federal government through September next year. CQ Roll Call’s Ben Hulac breaks down what you need to know. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

 Congress has passed the fiscal year 2021 spending bill to fund the federal government through September next year. CQ Roll Call’s Camila DeChalus breaks down what you need to know. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Congress has passed the fiscal year 2021 spending bill to fund the federal government through September next year. CQ Roll Call’s Jenn Shutt breaks down what you need to know about the omnibus package. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Congress has passed the fiscal year 2021 spending bill to fund the federal government through September next year. CQ Roll Call’s Mary Ellen McIntire breaks down what you need to know about HHS. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fintech Beat sits down with Matt Harris, partner at Bain Capital Venture, to discuss how the COVID-19 crisis has accelerated trends of automation and fintech adoption, and what it means for the future of fintech. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It has been months in the making but Congress finally compromised and agreed to a COVID-aid package. CQ Roll Call's budget tracker David Lehrman breaks it down. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're looking at a dispute that is threatening the delicate coronavirus relief bill negotiations that are also tied to a Friday at midnight government funding deadline. The GOP wants to limit Federal Reserve lending programs that would tie the hands of a Biden administration. Also, we examine what energy and environment policy will look like as President-elect Biden's Cabinet comes into focus. CQ...

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's former policy planning director Anne-Marie Slaughter shocked the world when she quit her high-powered job and wrote an article for The Atlantic, "Why Women Still Can't Have it All." Fast forward eight years. One book later and the head of the think tank New America, Slaughter has done a lot of writing and thinking about working mothers. The pandemic has upended...

Among the accomplishments of President Donald Trump is a crash-course in civics that showed the public that a lot of government business and transparency happens because of good will and cooperation, not statute. In the wake of Trump's busting so many norms about the presidency, there is discussion about what Congress can do to more clearly define presidential power in areas like releasing tax ret...

With the Electoral College certifying Joe Biden’s victory, and Senate Republicans acknowledging that fact, is the presidential race finally over? Not a chance! Katherine Tully-McManus discusses possible challenges to the congressional counting of electoral votes. Meanwhile, Biden picks Pete Buttigieg for Transportation Secretary and then heads to Georgia to stump for the Democrats in key Senate ra...

Public documents released Tuesday show the efficacy of a vaccine produced by Moderna. If approved this week by the FDA another wave of COVID-19 vaccines will be made available to the public. CQ Roll Call's Emily Kopp reports. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lawmakers are close to releasing text on a $1.4 trillion omnibus spending package which keep the government funded for the next year. But despite hope that COVID-19 relief might be a part of the spending package, key stumbling blocks still remain. CQ Roll Call’s Jennifer Shutt and David Lerman discuss the state of the spending package and what stumbling blocks lay ahead for a deal on COVID-19 reli...