CQ Roll Call Policy and Politics

CQ Roll Call Policy and Politics


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Taxes: What would Biden's tax proposal mean for America?
October 15, 2020

If former Vice President Joe Biden wins the presidency, taxes will likely increase for the top 1 percent of American taxpayers. Doug Sword takes a look at what the candidate is proposing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Immigration: Detainees placed in solitary confinement
October 14, 2020

Newly unsealed documents reveal that a private immigration detention firm placed detainees in solitary confinement for failing to volunteer for clean-up duty, contradicting what the company told Congress recently. Tanvi Misra reports. Learn more about you

Immigration: DHS misuses funds to round up migrants bound for the U.S.
October 14, 2020

Department of Homeland Security agents in Guatemala misused State Department funds to rent unmarked vans and round up hundreds of U.S.-bound migrants and send them to Honduras. Camila DeChalus reports on this finding by Democrats on the Senate Foreign Rel

Budget deep dive: Republicans and Trump at odds over coronavirus relief
October 13, 2020

President Donald Trump and GOP leaders are at odds over how much COVID-19 aid the government should spend with Trump saying he wants negotiators to “go big” while Senate Republicans pursue a smaller bill. CQ Roll Call’s David Lerman and Jennifer Shutt dis

Fintech Beat: The Fed, fintech, and corporate bond markets
October 13, 2020

Chris White, the CEO of Bondcliq, explains why the Fed's attempts to save the economy through corporate debt purchases needs an upgrade, starting with the bond market itself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Health: The COVID vaccine furthest along may face a storage shortage
October 13, 2020

The Trump administration is leaving it up to states to locate medical grade deep freezers capable of storing Pfizer's vaccine, Emily Kopp reports. Medical supply chain experts describe them as "unicorns." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.

Tech: The three biggest threats to election security
October 12, 2020

CQ Roll Call's Gopal Ratnam has more on what's keeping election security experts up at night. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Political Theater: The odd, hybrid world of the vice presidency
October 08, 2020

The vice presidency is a strange office, a hybrid of both the executive branch and the legislative branch, someone who breaks ties on Senate votes and can preside over the counting of his own electoral votes in a joint session of Congress. So Wednesday ni

Health: How different are the presidential candidates' plans to fight COVID?
October 08, 2020

We compare the similarities and differences in the Trump administration's plan to fight COVID versus Joe Biden's plan. CQ Roll Call reporter Andrew Siddons takes a look after Vice President Mike Pence called Biden's plan "plagiarism" during Wednesday's vi

Equal Time: Joe Biden, Clarence Thomas, and Amy Coney Barrett with Angela Wright
October 08, 2020

It is not everyday that one person has a relationship to so many of the day's main news stories but Angela Wright has touched history as the woman not called to support Anita Hill when she testified before the Senate Judiciary committee during Clarence Th