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RollCall When the president of the United States labels you the enemy of the people, what’s a young, aspiring journalist supposed to think? While recognizing that journalism is in a crisis, Christina Bellantoni, a professor of journalism at the University of Southern California and a former editor of Roll Call and at the Los Angeles […]
rollcall What do Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and former Vice President Dick Cheney have in common? In addition to being political power brokers, films about them have now been nominated for Academy Awards, for the documentary "RBG" and feature film "Vice," respectively. So politics, which has gotten a bit of a bad rap […]
rollcall President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address touched on familiar themes and not so familiar ones like bipartisanship. Yet, the goal of many politicians Tuesday night was a 2020 campaign snapshot, complete with fundraising appeal and messaging. Roll Call senior political reporter Simone Pathé explains. Subscribe to this podcast below Â
rollcall Patricia Hamill calls herself a feminist and a liberal Democrat, but as a defense attorney for students accused of sexual assault and harassment on college and university campuses she backs the Education Department’s controversial proposal to require schools to change the way they handle these cases. The department is now considering the more-than-100,000 comments it […]
rollcall  "Decide what kind of member of Congress you want to be," says Tom Davis, the former congressman from Virginia. "Voters see through phoniness pretty quickly." Davis, who chaired the Republican campaign committee and House Oversight panel and currently plies his trade at Holland & Knight, has a reputation as one of most principled and […]
rollcall If it’s a new year in an odd-numbered year, then you’ve got yourself a new Congress. As the 116th Congress is sworn in, things are going to look and operate differently: A record number of women in the House and Senate, new ethics rules, divided government, maybe even hats on the House floor! Also, […]
rollcall  Within days of the government shutdown setting a record, federal agencies, employees and the general public will begin to feel the pain, says CQ budget and appropriations reporter Kellie Mejdrich. She also gives the latest developments in what is turning out to be a prolonged political battle. Show Notes: White House wants $7 […]
 Democratic Rep. Nita M. Lowey of New York is expected to lead the powerful House appropriations panel in the new Congress and she already has a list of priorities she will be pursuing. CQ’s budget and appropriations reporter Kellie Mejdrich gives us a rundown of what those are and where Lowey may find common […]
 With just eight legislative days remaining to avoid a partial government shutdown, lawmakers will confront a slew of prickly issues, including Robert S. Mueller III’s Russia investigation, in their government spending talks, says CQ’s senior budget reporter Paul M. Krawzak. He games out what might happen to the seven pending bills that need to […]
rollcall  The results of the Mississippi Senate runoff election were not surprising. The Republican won. The Democrat lost. It is a Republican state. But the fact that we were talking about Mississippi at all in the late stages of the 2018 election season was a surprise. It also brings up questions about political trends […]
 Lawmakers are racing against the clock to pass seven more spending bills, but their efforts are likely to be a struggle amid President Trump’s insistence for $5 billion for the border wall that Democrats don’t want to give him, says CQ budget editor Peter Cohn. And CQ tax writer Doug Sword brings us up […]
Stock market losses and interest rate increases by the Federal Reserve may be making some people jittery especially President Donald Trump. But none of it is abnormal, explains CQ’s numbers guru, budget and appropriations editor Peter Cohn. rollcall Â
The rising deficit, the president’s request for 5 percent in budget cuts and discussions of needing to trim Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security set off a storm of debate just three weeks before the midterms. Roll Call’s senior Senate reporter Niels Lesniewski, senior CQ budget reporter Paul M. Krawzak and co-host Jennifer Shutt explain why […]
A 16-member bipartisan, bicameral select committee is on the verge of proposing changes to the annual budget and appropriations process, including moving the budget resolution from an annual to a biennial schedule. CQ’s Jennifer Shutt talks about the select committee’s progress with Mike Veselik, manager of the Federal Budget Process Reform Project at Convergence, and […]
With three spending bills signed into law, Congress is unlikely to pass all nine outstanding bills before the fiscal year ends on Sept. 30, says CQ appropriations reporter Kellie Mejdrich. Meantime, President Donald Trump has sent mixed signals on whether he would sign an $855 billion spending package the House plans to adopt this week, […]
Minnesota is suddenly the center of the political universe and voters there are more focused on health care and the economy than the latest scandal in Washington. And they’ll have a lot to say in the midterms because the Land of 10,000 Lakes is hosting a governor’s race, two Senate races and four competitive House […]
In Upstate New York, two Republican House freshmen are fighting for their political lives in districts that supported President Donald Trump in 2016. While health care is a dominant issue Democrats there hope to capitalize on, there is an underlying racial issue in one district, as the GOP tries to make the rap career of […]
Democrats "definitely have a chance to win the Senate," election analyst Nathan Gonzales tells CQ on Congress. He maps out where Democrats can pick up Senate seats in the midterm elections as well as which races they are most likely to lose. RollCall  The 10 Most Vulnerable Senators in 2018: Heidi Heitkamp Moves to […]
Congress is racing to pass at least three spending bills as early as this week and is poised to make progress on others, says CQ Budget Tracker editor David Lerman. Time, however, is running out. RollCall  Show Notes: Potential Fiscal Year Move Sows Discord on Select Budget Panel Â
The Congressional Budget Office recently revised its earlier, already dire warning that the national debt will be 150 percent larger than the entire U.S. economy within 30 years — and GOP budget and tax proposals could make a bad situation much worse. CQ News editors Patrick B. Pexton and Pete Cohn discuss the political landscape […]