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Shannon Bream, host of Fox News @ Night, answers the tough questions about Fox’s ideological approach to journalism amid growing public concern about heated political rhetoric. Her show is part of Fox News’ prime-time lineup that in October reached more than 2.8 million cable viewers a day. In a 20-minute interview, Bream discusses a wide range of issues […]
House and Senate lawmakers made a deal to give the Pentagon a huge spending boost and defy President Donald Trump’s call to cut various health, education and labor programs. CQ Defense reporter John M. Donnelly and Health reporter Andrew Siddons unpack the mammoth spending package now making its way through Congress. RollCall Show Notes: First […]
It’s not all 12 as they had hoped, but lawmakers did get five big spending bills signed into law, leaving seven others for the lame-duck session. The president’s insistence for border wall funding could take center stage, says CQ appropriations reporter Jennifer Shutt. RollCall Republicans Likely in for a Messy December Funding, Leadership Fight […]
Three Republican House Appropriations subcommittee chairmen — Kevin Yoder of Kansas, John Culberson of Texas and John Carter of Texas — face tough re-elections, says Roll Call senior political reporter Bridget Bowman. A loss for Yoder and Culberson would mean that lame-duck lawmakers end up negotiating two vital spending bills — Homeland Security and Commerce-Justice-Science. RollCall […]
While Washington is obsessed with the Supreme Court nomination of Brett Kavanaugh, voters — Republicans and Democrats— are more concerned about the economy, says Democratic pollster Brad Bannon, who adds that the positive top-line numbers cloak Americans’ continuing economic fears. RollCall Show Notes: 12 House Ratings Changes: Democrats Are More Likely Than Not to Win […]
Senate Democrats are trying to make the most of the Supreme Court nomination hearing of Brett Kavanaugh looking to bolster support for the midterms and 2020 presidential election. Leah Askarinam of Inside Elections tells us which Democrats are likely to gain from the strategy and whether it will affect Republican turnout. RollCall
The Senate takes up a spending package this week that rejects White House attempts to cut school funding by about 11 percent next year. CQ’s Kellie Mejdrich explains the conflict over education priorities between Congress and the White House and which side is likely to prevail.
With half of fiscal year 2018 already behind them, lawmakers are struggling with a catch-all spending bill to fund the rest of the year, but controversial issues popping up — from gun control legislation to the border wall — could cripple talks, says CQ budget and appropriations reporter Ryan McCrimmon. RollCall Show Notes: 10 Policy […]
The state’s Democratic congressional roster could grow by half a dozen, a huge boost for the party’s bid to take back the House this fall, thanks to new district lines drawn by the state’s highest court. Roll Call political reporter Bridget Bowman explains the party’s boosted targets for opportunity now that one of the nation’s […]
President Donald Trump will address a joint session of Congress on Feb. 28 and no one knows what to expect from this most unpredictable of presidents. It’s another episode in the Washington reality show that is Trump’s presidency and representatives and senators are extras, perhaps against their will, in the drama. CQ Roll Call’s […]
This could be the Democrats best chance, says CQ Roll Call reporters Simone Pathé and Greg Tourial, to flip Georgia’s 6th District, where Republicans are scrambling to stop Democrat Jon Ossoff from winning in an April 18 all-party primary. @ossoff #FlipThe6th Show Notes: Georgia Democrat Jon Ossoff Raises $8.3M Should This Georgia Candidate Be […]
Millennials are the largest living generation and are just starting their careers, so the GOP’s tax plan would affect them all of their working lives. They’re concerned about the proposed changes to the tax treatment of housing, education, health care and income, says CQ reporter Laura Weiss. RollCall Show Notes: Thanksgiving Ads Served as Prelude […]
CQ Roll Call reporters Dean DeChiaro and Gopal Ratnam explain the latest on President Donald Trump’s travel ban, which went into partial effect June 29 following a Supreme Court decision. They explain who is now allowed into the United States and who is not and discuss the legal and policy debates to come. […]
Donald Trump, the candidate, pledged to withdraw from foreign conflicts. As president, he has done the opposite, taking on North Korea, Iran, Cuba and Afghanistan. CQ Defense Editor Patrick Pexton and Reporter Patrick Kelley unpack what’s at stake at a time when Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s future is also uncertain. Roll Call Show Notes: Tillerson […]
President Donald Trump will meet with top House and Senate leaders after Labor Day in an effort to reach consensus on tax legislation. After a bruising defeat on health care, he’s counting on a tax bill to revive his presidency. Roll Call Show Notes: Trump’s Tax Speech Shows Entire Agenda Rests on Overhaul Push Let […]
The demise of the Republican health care bill has added to a growing list of disagreements between President Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress, from the future of Attorney General Jeff Sessions to Russia sanctions to transgender people serving in the military. Is the relationship breaking down? CQ Roll Call White House reporter John T. Bennett […]
Democratic Congressman Frank Pallone of New Jersey discusses his fear that a $6.3 billion health package that would also overhaul the mental health system could be undercut by GOP efforts to repeal the health care law. He tells CQ Roll Call’s Health reporter Andrew Siddons and Managing Editor Adriel Bettelheim that Medicaid cuts are […]
RollCall All politics is state and local. Positions on the Republican tax legislation break down not just on a partisan level but regional ones. That’s because several members of the House, including vulnerable Republicans, represent high-tax states like New York and New Jersey where their constituents currently deduct state and local taxes from their federal […]
Lawmakers in the House and Senate remain divided over gun control in the aftermath of the June 12 Orlando attack. But, as CQ Roll Call’s Adriel Bettelheim and Niels Lesniewski explain, that isn’t hurting either side’s political campaigns. Show Notes: Video: Democrats Stage House Sit-In For Gun Vote Chris Murphy: NRA ‘Vise Grip’ On Senate […]
CQ Roll Call’s Managing Editor Adriel Bettelheim and CQ Magazine Deputy Editor Jason Dick break down how so-called ‘poison pill’ amendments get the majority party in Congress to sink its own legislation. Yes, you read right. Though it’s a time-honored tactic, such make-or-break amendments are flying with greater frequency in an election year […]