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CQ Roll Call Policy and Politics
This is CQ Roll Call Policy and Politics, formerly CQ on Congress, which has all of the audio content from the CQ Roll Call newsroom.
Episodes
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Political Theater: Between the Lines: A Redistricting Roundup Report Card
When it comes to really geeking out about politics and campaigns, nothing beats redistricting. Jason Dick and Michael Macagnone break down how the…
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CQ Budget: What to expect in the Biden administration budget
President Joe Biden's fiscal 2023 budget request, due Monday, will propose new spending levels for defense and nondefense programs at a time of soaring…
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Political Theater: Training the next generation of campaign reporters — in the field
Christina Bellantoni, a former Roll Call editor who is now professor of professional practice at the University of Southern California, is training the next…
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CQ Budget: Tax breaks percolating
While the fiscal 2022 omnibus spending package steered clear of tax legislation, lawmakers are preparing to push for several tax measures in coming months…
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Political Theater: Supreme Court confirmations keep us guessing
The stakes for Supreme Court nominations have always been high. But starting in 2016, when Senate Republicans refused to consider the nomination of Merrick B…
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CQ Budget: Omnibus spending deal done
It came more than five months late, but omnibus appropriations for the current fiscal year made it across the finish line this week. CQ Roll Call's David…
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Political Theater: ‘Time becomes elastic’: the long legacy of Guantanamo Bay
For the remaining prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba detention facility, “time becomes elastic,” in the words of filmmaker Alex Gibney. One long-time…
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CQ Budget: Countdown to a spending deal
With one week to go before current government funding runs out, lawmakers are struggling to reach a deal on fiscal 2022 appropriations while accommodating a…
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Political Theater: Unified control, the political unicorn that never lasts
In the last 50 years, only six first-term presidents have been graced with their party in the majority in the House and Senate, and those majorities come under…
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Political Theater: ‘I just knew I had to be there’ — Jamie Raskin and the convergence of grief and politics
Rep. Jamie Raskin was already embroiled in a political struggle of titanic proportions when tragedy struck in late 2020: the death of his son, Tommy. Madeleine…
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Fintech Beat: Ro Khanna on dignity, big tech, and crypto
Ro Khanna, whose district lies at the center of Silicon Valley, talks about his book "Dignity in a Digital Age: Making Tech Work for All of Us" and how to…
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CQ Budget: What's happening with infrastructure spending?
Big spending increases for roads and other transportation projects approved in the bipartisan infrastructure law remain on hold until Congress passes an…
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Political Theater: The NFL’s missteps get amplified on its big stage
This Super Bowl Sunday marks the conclusion of the one of the NFL’s mosts successful and entertaining seasons — and also one where its questionable business…
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CQ Budget: Two weeks and counting
The path to avoiding a government shutdown is changing by the hour. And if an agreement on spending isn't reached in two weeks, the government will come to a…
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Equal Time with Mary C. Curtis: Should there be a Black history month?
Black history is often celebrated as though it were not American history. So many presidents have held up proclamations on behalf of Black history month while…
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Political Theater: The color of money, 2022 midterms edition
Voting rights is about as hot a topic as it gets in politics right now, with the debate centered around whether voting laws pushed by Republicans amount to…
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Fintech Beat: Navigating housing inflation, homeowners, and data: A conversation with Finlocker's Brian Vieaux
Brian Vieaux, the President of Finlocker, sits down to talk about the economy and how to reach prospective homeowners "before the point of thought." Learn more…
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CQ Budget: Budget priorities clash in coming months
Democrats have so much to do and so little time. Congress faces a Feb. 18 deadline to complete overdue appropriations but distractions are multiplying. That…
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Political Theater: ‘I’m not going to be bullied out of here’ — members of Congress react to death threats
There has always been a risk to being a public figure, particularly a member of Congress. Beyond the violence of events like the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the…
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Fintech Beat: Encore: Cryptodollars vs. Digital Dollars
Nic Carter, a partner at Castle Island Ventures, and Fennie Wang, the former associate general counsel of MakerDao, discuss and debate the value of stablecoins…
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CQ Budget: Getting something done
President Biden and others have spoken this week about breaking apart the behemoth reconciliation package known as "Build Back Better" to pass pieces of it…
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Equal Time: What do the census, voting rights and democracy have in common?
Emails made public by the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University Law School recently showed that officials under President Donald Trump tried…
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Equal Time with Mary C. Curtis: 'Beat them in court, beat them in Congress and beat them at the polls'
On the one-year anniversary of President Joe Biden's inauguration, the administration woke up to it's fifth defeat in six months in passing legislation to…
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Political Theater: Reshaping society, the Supreme Court way
The White House and Congress get a lot of attention for their proposals to change public law, but the Supreme Court is having an outsize effect on society with…
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Fintech Beat: The MLK Day Debrief: Equity crowdfunding at Seed at the Table
Pierre Le Veaux talks about how Seed at the Table is transforming equity crowdfunding to create new opportunities for underserved entrepreneurs. Also: what…
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CQ Budget: Movement on the appropriations process?
Lead appropriators from both sides of the aisle are sitting down to chat. Polite chatter in the hallways of Congress has replaced boisterous accusations. Could…
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Fintech Beat: What's the definition of emeritus? The Fintech Beat awards for 2021
Host Chris Brummer discusses with fintech guru Dan Gorfine what the media missed, and should have ignored, in 2021. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit…
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New year’s outlook for reconciliation package and appropriations
CQ Roll Call’s Jennifer Shutt and David Lerman look ahead to negotiations around the roughly $2 trillion reconciliation package and appropriations season…
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Political Theater: January 6, 2021: In their own words
For people just trying to do their jobs on Jan. 6, 2021, there wasn’t a lot of time to think. But bearing witness then and reflecting on it now are as…
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Equal Time with Mary C Curtis: The fight for Black and Brown children
There is a double standard when it comes to the treatment of children of color. They are punished in schools more frequently. They are arrested more…
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Fintech Beat: Encore: Why does crypto love Twitter?
Lana Swartz discusses cryptotwitter and her book “New Money: How Payments Became Social Media". Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Political Theater: The 2021 Political Theater year in review
It’s that time of the year, when podcasts like Political Theater do their years in review. It’s a helpful frame. But 2021 in retrospect looks a lot like 2020…
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Fintech Beat: The fintech job market for 2022
Executive recruiter David Richardson joins the podcast to talk about where the fintech jobs will be in 2022. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit…
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CQ Budget: Democrats look to new year to pass tax and spending package
Democratic leaders hoped to pass a $2.2 trillion climate change and social safety package known as Build Back Better by Christmas. Instead, negotiations…
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Equal Time with Mary C. Curtis: The politics of equity 2021
In this wide-ranging, year-end conversation, Mary C. Curtis speaks with New York Times columnist Charles Blow about what he considers the dramatic rollback of…
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Political Theater: CQ Roll Call's photographers on the year that was
It has been, to put it mildly, a momentous year. It started off the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and has been defined by the continuing pandemic. But it's also…
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Fintech Beat: Why the FTC matters for fintech
Duane Pozza, a former top FTC consumer protection official, explains where unexpected regulatory risk may lurk for privacy, competition, and crypto. Learn more…
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CQ Budget: Senate clears procedural debt limit measure
The Senate cleared a bill to let Democrats increase the debt limit on their own, delaying the next bipartisan debate over the debt limit until after the…
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Political Theater: From COVID's first wave to now, what we learned
The COVID-19 pandemic has upended our lives for years now and killed millions. What are the biggest changes it has caused? And could we have done things…
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Fintech Beat: What Circle Impact means for crypto's inclusion conversation
Circle's Dante Disparte breaks down the company's inclusion plans and how the stablecoin giant is aiming to reshape crypto's conversation with minority banks…
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CQ Budget: So much to do, so little time
There is so much left for Congress to do before the end of the year — a vote on the debt limit and the sweeping climate and social spending package. But…
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Political Theater: Coal in your legislative stockings
The weather outside might not be so frightful, but Congress’ inability to do anything on time sure does suck. Here we are in December, and, as usual, there is…
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Equal Time with Mary C. Curtis: What do the battle against omicron and HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge have in common?
Equity is top of mind this week. First, the omicron variant is now the topic of global conversation. How the story unfolded in the U.S. illuminates how…
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Political Theater: Ruben Gallego's warts and all account of life and death
Congressman Ruben Gallego’s new book, 'They Called Us "Lucky": The Life and Afterlife of the Iraq War's Hardest Hit Unit,' isn’t your typical political memoir…
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Fintech Beat: D-Cash: How the Eastern Caribbean created one of the first CBDCs
Timothy Antoine, Governor of the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union, shares how the central bank launched one of the world's first central bank digital…
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CQ Budget: At last, House passes massive reconciliation package
The House voted 220-213 Friday morning to send the Senate the $2.2 trillion reconciliation package -- capping off overnight drama when GOP leader Kevin…
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Political Theater: What we're watching one year out from 2022 midterms
The 2022 midterm elections are less than a year away, and CQ Roll Call politics team has been keeping an eye on vulnerable members, races to watch, and other…
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Equal Time with Mary C. Curtis: 'What has come of America?'
Civil rights leader and National Urban League president and CEO Marc Morial says he is "damn worried" about the state of American democracy. Mary C. Curtis…
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Fintech Beat: Encore: Bank charters, fintech charters, and crypto
Michele Alt, Dan Awrey and Caitlin Long provide an overview of the world of bank charters and fintech charters — and what they mean for crypto. Learn more…
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Budget deep dive: Will the reconciliation bill pass soon?
The House could vote as soon as next week on the roughly $2 trillion reconciliation package, sending it to the Senate where it's provisions could be changed…
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Political Theater: Infrastructure Week: No longer a punchline
It's a good time to be Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. With President Biden about to sign an infrastructure bill into law, Buttigieg is one of its…
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Fintech Beat: The Fintech Weeks of 2021
Conan French, senior advisor at the Institute of International Finance, sits down with Fintech Beat to talk about the major regulatory themes and developments…
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Budget deep dive: Reconciliation at risk
Financing concerns left moderate Democrats queasy about voting for a budget reconciliation package to expand the safety net and combat climate change. The plan…
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Equal Time with Mary C. Curtis: 'U.S. immigration policy is racist'
Many in the nation were shocked when horrifying photographs appeared of immigration officers on horseback rounding up Haitian asylum seekers at the border last…
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Political Theater: The what-have-you-done-for-me-lately elections of 2021
Gubernatorial elections this week in Virginia and New Jersey showed a huge swing toward Republicans in two states previously thought of as solidly Democratic…
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Fintech Beat: Minority banks and the technology stack
Nicole Elam, CEO of the National Bankers Association, and Larry Parks discuss what digital transformation looks like for minority-owned and rural banks. Learn…
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Budget deep dive: The skinny on the stripped down reconciliation framework
President Biden presented House Democrats with a $1.75 trillion reconciliation framework text this week. CQ Roll Call’s Jennifer Shutt and David Lerman break…
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Political Theater: Joe Manchin: Man of the moment
In an evenly divided Senate, every senator has the ability to be a kingmaker. But West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin has taken it to the next level. At a time…
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Fintech Beat: China's Mu Changchun on the digital yuan
Mu Changchun, director-general of China's central bank digital currency project, talks about the country's "wait and see" innovation path and the design of the…
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CQ Budget: What's the meaning of compromise?
When it comes to reconciliation, reducing the original price tag by $1.5 trillion has left a lot on the floor. President Joe Biden signaled Democrats are close…