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Ratings change: Van Drew going Republican tilts NJ race to GOP -
California water politics complicate House panel’s oversight -
Walker not running for reelection in House, will consider 2022 Senate bid -
Next year’s Congressional Baseball Game set for June 10 -
Sources: Repealing health care taxes in play on spending deal -
Impeachment costing Democrats a House member as Van Drew plans party switch -
Analysis: Impeachment’s no ‘game changer’ and other pet peeves -
War on Christmas (decorations) comes to Capitol Hill -
Subscribe to this podcast below The impeachment hearings are getting all the attention, but there’s other big news on the Hill this week. Congress must fund the government by Thursday to avoid a shutdown. At this point, it seems like everyone is on board, our guest this week says, even President Donald […]
In this joint podcast, FRT and Fintech Beat team up to cover October’s whirlwind of fintech discussions that took place at the Institute of International Finance, DC Fintech Week, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Also last month, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified on Capitol Hill about Libra. Show Notes: The […]
Subscribe to this podcast below Congress needs to reach agreement on a second continuing resolution before funding runs out on Nov. 21 to avoid a partial government shutdown. But that deadline is going to be difficult to meet. Senior budget reporter Paul M. Krawzak joins the podcast this week to explain where […]
From lawmakers struggling with the "high solemnity" of their votes to impeach Richard Nixon in 1974 to the "high farce" of the impeachment of Bill Clinton in 1998, each impeachment episode has its own distinct identity, according to CQ Roll Call contributor Finlay Lewis. In the latest Political Theater podcast, Lewis discusses his own […]
Politicians and pundits are fond of saying that Washington has never been more polarized and that the Senate, in particular, may never recover from contemporary hyper-partisanship and rule-bending. But it is assistant Senate historian Daniel S. Holt’s job to remind us all that disputes in the chamber used to result in pistols at dawn instead […]
With worries about a possible recession in the near future, the Trump administration has thrown around the idea of implementing new tax cuts to help stimulate the economy, only to flip flop on the idea multiple times later on. Specifically, the administration has flipped on two types of tax cuts — capital gains indexing, […]
It’s September 2019, but we’re only just now wrapping up the 2018 election. Voters in North Carolina’s 9th District will finish it all off on when they decide on Sept. 10 whether Democrat Dan McCready or Republican Dan Bishop will represent them in Congress. The lagging special election was necessary because the North Carolina […]
Congress is finally back in town after a long summer recess and the race is on to avoid a government shutdown before the new fiscal year begins Oct. 1. Not one of the 12 annual spending bills needed to fund the government has cleared the Senate yet and there are only three weeks to […]
rollcall Democrats were nearly unanimous in voting to end the so-called "Cadillac tax" on high cost health insurance plans that was the principal mechanism in the Affordable Care Act aimed at reducing health care costs. Josh Gordon, policy director for the Concord Coalition, a group that seeks to restrain budget deficits, says that’s regrettable. And CQ Roll Call […]
rollcall Senate Democrats are preparing to fight the Trump administration over a $10,000 limit on deductions for state and local taxes, says CQ Roll Call’s budget and tax editor Peter Cohn. And some conservatives are pressing the White House to bypass Congress to index capital gains taxes to inflation, in a move that would cut […]
RollCall Political scientist Shadi Hamid remembers growing up in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, the son of Egyptian immigrants. In what was then a solidly Republican enclave of the Philadelphia suburbs, his parents and many of his Muslim neighbors voted for George W. Bush. That seems like a long time ago, as that critical swing area of […]
RollCall The Trump administration says it will round up undocumented immigrants who have missed a court date in an effort to deter others migrants from seeking refuge in the United States. But raids could exacerbate family separations, report CQ Roll Call’s Tanvi Misra and Jinitzail Hernandez, who just returned from visiting one of the largest […]