This week CQ on Congress delves deep into whether the government is ready to manage a pandemic. Shawn Zeller speaks first to Rep. Anna G. Eshoo, the California Democrat who wrote a law last year to improve pandemic preparedness, then to Nikki Clowers, managing director of the health care team for the Government Accountability Office. She points out some of the shortcomings in U.S. preparedness that need to be shored up. 

Show notes:

• Unchecked power
• Senate says no to witnesses, as final vote is set for Wednesday
• Historic impeachment trial begins. Now what?
• Between Iraq and a hard place: Congress