CQ Roll Call Policy and Politics

CQ Roll Call Policy and Politics


Latest Episodes

CQ Budget: Omnibus showdown
December 16, 2022

Congress has one week left to complete an overdue omnibus spending package for the current fiscal year. CQ Roll Call's David Lerman, Lindsey McPherson, Aidan Quigley and Laura Weiss outline what to expect in the final bill, what may end up on the cutting

Fintech Beat: What's the carbon footprint of your bank account?
December 08, 2022

ATMOS Financial Co-Founder and CEORavi Mikkelsen offers a deep dive on the future of Green Finance.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Political Theater: 'Retrograde' chronicles the human consequences of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan
December 07, 2022

Matthew Heineman is one of the pre-eminent documentary filmmakers working, and his movies have provided ground level views of the world not available to many: drug cartels in Mexico, journalists working in the Syrian civil war and COVID-19 wards in New Yo

CQ Budget: Omnibus Spending Talks Heat Up
December 02, 2022

After weeks of inaction, top appropriators and congressional leaders began makingheadway on a bipartisan deal that would pave the way for an overdue omnibus spending package,but big sticking points remain.CQ Roll Call's David Lerman, Lindsey McPherson

Political Theater: Race, football and religion: Sorting through the Georgia Senate runoff
December 01, 2022

On Dec. 6, the last race of the 2022 campaign will conclude, when voting in Georgia ends in the runoff between Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican Herschel Walker.This campaign has been close since the get-go; It is the first time the major pa

Political Theater: Measure for measure, the drama of the 2022 midterms starts to conclude
November 17, 2022

Things we know about the 2022 midterms: There will be a House Republican majority and a Senate Democratic majority. Elections went pretty smoothly. Incumbents for the most part held on. Things we don't know: How big those majorities will be. What governin

CQ Budget: Lame-duck fiscal agenda
November 17, 2022

After a split verdict in the midterm elections, a lame-duck Congress under Democratic control will try to complete its fiscal agenda. CQ Roll Call's David Lerman and Peter Cohn assess the impact of the elections on the prospects for an omnibus spending pa

Fintech Beat: Figure CEO Mike Cagney on (Real World) Blockchain Applications
November 15, 2022

Mike Cagney joins Chris Brummer to talk about concrete use cases for blockchain.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Political Theater: The known knowns of the 2022 midterm election
November 03, 2022

As we prepare for Election Day, what are the things we know that we know about the 2022 midterm election? As the late Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld once said, there are known knowns, known unknowns, and unknown unknowns. Let's apply that to this camp

Equal Time with Mary C. Curtis: A celebration and reflection – and looking to the future -- after National Hispanic Heritage Month
October 31, 2022

When America started officially honoring Hispanic heritage in 1968, it was a one-week celebration. Though the country now marks National Hispanic Heritage Month, acknowledging how generations of Hispanic Americans have influenced and contributed to our na