Skip to content
RollCall logo

Podcasts

Bipartisan cooperation put to the test in Senate

CQ Budget, Ep. 130

Twitter locked out Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s campaign account. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call file photo)
Twitter locked out Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s campaign account. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call file photo)
By Micaela Rodríguez, Evan Campbell and David Lerman
Posted October 21, 2019 at 5:47pm

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., walks from his office to the Senate floor in the Capitol for a vote. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

 

Senate leaders hope to break a weeks-long stalemate by pushing long-delayed spending bills to the floor for votes this week. But the effort will test the ability of the two parties to cooperate when a funding dispute over a border wall still rages, as senior budget reporter Paul M. Krawzak explains.

Show notes: 

Recent Stories

Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., the ranking member on the House Appropriations Committee, raised the issue of cuts to medical research during the panel's June markup of the fiscal 2027 Defense spending bill. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call file photo)

Defense funding to research troops’ brain injuries shrank since 2025

Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is seen on the House steps in June. This month he’ll be treading familiar ground as he tries again on some priorities.

This week: Graham’s death, McConnell’s recovery add to drama

The office of Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., on Sunday afternoon sent this photo of he and his wife, Elaine Chao. Submitted by the office of Sen. Mitch McConnell (Submitted by the office of Sen. Mitch McConnell)

After weeks of questions, McConnell provides information on health

Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., talks with reporters outside the Capitol on Sept. 11, 2025.

Graham’s death upends primary season further

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., conducts a Senate Budget Committee confirmation hearing on Tuesday, June 16, 2026.

Lindsey Graham, defense hawk and four-term senator, dead at 71

Campaign workers erect signs before a Graham Platner event in Portland, Maine, on June 7. Now the state party is scrambling to find a replacement.

Race for Platner alternative takes shape