CQ Roll Call Policy and Politics
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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.
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Political Theater: Buy the 'Shadow Ticket,' take the ride
Thomas Pynchon's latest novel, "Shadow Ticket," has a lot to say about politics, so Jason Dick checks in with Sean Carswell, the official Pynchon scho...
CQ Budget: Defense spending uptick
A new compromise defense authorization bill calls for a higher level of defense spending than President Donald Trump requested for the current fiscal...
Political Theater: Can Congress save itself?
Despite its propensity for making itself look bad, some of the inner workings of Congress reveal lawmakers who are finding ways to work together. Can...
CQ Budget: Two months to go
As appropriators aim to finish the nine remaining fiscal 2026 spending bills ahead of the Jan. 30 deadline, CQ Roll Call's Aris Folley and Aidan Quigl...
Equal Time: Despite DEI pushback, a corporate culture of belonging is possible
The Trump administration’s war on DEI, diversity, equity and inclusion policies, has left many companies that value a welcoming workplace more than a...
Political Theater: The re-re-redistricting chronicles
Jason Dick and Nathan Gonzales talk about how multiple rounds of redistricting congressional boundaries and the lawsuits surrounding them are making a...
CQ Budget: Appropriations back on track?
Now that the partial government shutdown is over, can Congress make up for lost time and get long-delayed appropriations bills moving again? CQ Roll C...
CQ Budget: Politics of a shutdown
Enough Senate Democrats finally broke ranks with their party to clear a path for ending the longest partial government shutdown in history. CQ Roll Ca...
Political Theater: There is no such things as an off-year in politics
Jason Dick talks with Daniela Altimari and Mary Ellen McIntire about the new Roll Call Most Vulnerable Incumbent list, Tuesday night's election result...
CQ Budget: Shutdown pressures on the rise
The Senate is under growing pressure to find a way out of the partial government shutdown that is set to become the longest in history. But President...
Political Theater: Taking the ‘Vineland’ express to ‘One Battle After Another’
Jason Dick and Sean Carswell discuss how Thomas Pynchon’s novel “Vineland” led to Paul Thomas Anderson’s movie “One Battle After Another,” the convers...
CQ Budget: Shutdown pain growing as November nears
The largest union of federal employees has called on Congress to pass a "clean" continuing resolution as crucial Nov. 1 deadlines for the start of hea...
Political Theater: Immigration, race and ‘One Battle After Another'
Jason Dick and Chris Johnson talk about how immigration and racial issues frame the action and plot in the Paul Thomas Anderson movie "One Battle Afte...
CQ Budget: 'Power of the purse' at stake
President Donald Trump's decision to divert Pentagon research and development funds to pay the troops during the partial shutdown has ignited a fierce...
CQ Budget: Shutdown stalemate
Neither party shows any sign of blinking in the standoff over a partial government shutdown that enters its third week. CQ Roll Call's Aidan Quigley,...
Political Theater: An Orwell movie for Orwellian times
Jason Dick talks with filmmaker Raoul Peck about his documentary "Orwell: 2+2=5," the importance of stepping back from the news cycle to keep things i...
CQ Budget: Trapped in a shutdown
A partial government shutdown enters its second week with both parties dug in for a protracted fight and congressional leaders unwilling to negotiate....
Equal Time: College Leadership in Turbulent Times
Being a college president has never been the easiest job. But today, it seems an impossible one. The campus may still be a place that encourages stude...
Political Theater: The great 'meh': Scenes from a shutdown
Jason Dick and Mary Ellen McIntire talk about how the government shutdown hasn't created much urgency on Capitol Hill, even though the effects could b...
Political Theater: Let’s get existential
Jason Dick and Molly Reynolds talk about the most significant things Congress has done this year and what kind of ripple effects could follow, as well...
CQ Budget: Health subsidies standoff
A partisan divide over extending health insurance subsidies that expire at year's end threatens to trigger a partial government shutdown next week. CQ...
Equal Time: A moral call-to-action on climate and energy policy
There had been progress on the issue of environmental justice, with the contributions of citizen-activists, who spurred the government to protect hist...
Political Theater: They seem fine: Life After Congress
Poetry readings, brewing beer, helping out kids: Jason Dick and Jessica Wehrman talk about Roll Call’s revived Life After Congress feature and what f...
CQ Budget: Search for an end game
With barely three weeks to spare, Congress and the Trump administration are struggling to settle on a strategy for a funding extension that would avoi...
Political Theater
Discharge petition: congressional procedure or great band name?
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CQ Budget: 'Pocket rescission' showdown
Democrats are warning that Republicans risk a partial government shutdown next month if they don't resist President Donald Trump's plan to claw back $...
Equal Time: Closing the opportunity gap in education
It’s back to school time, with excitement mixed with uncertainty and anxiety. News from the Department of Education is primarily about cutting its bud...
Political Theater: How Democrats hope to flip the script on energy as a campaign issue
Jessica Wehrman talks with David Jordan of CQ Roll Call about how energy affordability could become a sleeper issue in next year's midterm elections.<...
CQ Budget: Rough-and-tumble September
The effort to avert a partial government shutdown next month could be uglier than usual after Congress left town for its August recess with partisan t...
Political Theater: Off to the redistricting races
Mary Ellen McIntire and Daniela Altimari discuss how a potential new congressional map in Texas could set off a race among other states to redraw thei...
CQ Budget: Politics of appropriations
The appropriations process is under threat from a poisonous political climate as Republicans seek cooperation from Democrats while pursuing partisan r...
Political Theater: Six months in, a gut check on Trump 2.0
Talking Epstein, congressional chaos and the Senate races to watch with Nathan Gonzales of Inside Elections.
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Political Theater: Rush job: Life in Congress
Jason Dick and Mary Ellen McIntire talk about what happens when Congress tries to do too much in too short a period of time, how Republicans and Democ...
CQ Budget: Big test on rescissions
The Senate will take up a bill to claw back $9.4 billion in foreign aid and public broadcasting funds that Democrats warn would blow up the bipartisan...
Equal Time: ‘Accidental activists,’ the local heroes who expose government secrecy
In “Backroom Deals in Our Backyards: How Government Secrecy Harms Our Communities and the Local Heroes Fighting Back,” Miranda Spivack tells the stori...
Political Theater: 'We had time back then'
Jason Dick and Chris Cillizza talk about the time needed to produce quality sourcing, good work and journalism, how the news business continues to cha...
CQ Budget: Political fallout of 'big, beautiful bill'
President Donald Trump's new budget reconciliation law is already starting to define next year's midterm elections. CQ Roll Call's Daniela Altimari an...
Political Theater: The ‘rock and roll poetry’ of Joe Iconis’ Hunter S. Thompson musical
Jason Dick talks with Joe Iconis about what led him to write "The Untitled Unauthorized Hunter S. Thompson Musical," how much the world changed during...
Political Theater: A short history of hoping people will change their minds
Jason Dick and Jessica Wehrman talk about how unpopular the “One Big Beautiful Bill” in Congress is, why Republicans will likely pass it anyway and th...
CQ Budget: 'Beautiful' bill picked apart
The Senate parliamentarian has been busy throwing out key provisions in the GOP's reconciliation bill, ruling against measures affecting food stamps,...