CQ Budget: Defense budget uncertainty
Even with a bipartisan defense spending cap in place, the size and shape of a fiscal 2024 defense budget is still a wild card. CQ Roll Call's David Lerman and John M. Donnelly outline the factors that...
30 Jun 202327min
CQ Budget: Spending allocations clash
Senate appropriators approved spending allocations for their 12 annual bills in a party-line vote, setting up a clash with their House counterparts. CQ Roll Call's David Lerman, Aidan Quigley, and Pau...
23 Jun 202330min
Political Theater: Chronicling one year of the post-Dobbs world
June 24 marks the one-year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that overturned Roe v. Wade and the federal right to an abortion. Amanda Becker, a former Rol...
23 Jun 202320min
CQ Budget: Partisan clash on spending and taxes
House Republicans approved lower fiscal 2024 spending levels than provided in a bipartisan debt limit deal, while Senate appropriators pledged to stick to the higher deal-backed levels. And House GOP ...
16 Jun 202333min
Political Theater: DC/DOX adds another diverse layer to Washington's film community
Washington is a film capital, home to a diverse slate of festivals to match a diverse slate of interests and people. This week, the DC/DOX festival gets under way with dozens of documentary features o...
14 Jun 202321min
CQ Budget: Conservatives revolt
A group of hardcore conservatives staged a protest that brought House business to a halt, partly over spending levels approved in a bipartisan debt limit package. CQ Roll Call's David Lerman, Peter Co...
9 Jun 202329min
Political Theater: Taking flight: Ondi Timoner’s ‘Last Flight Home’
Good documentaries tell stories that work on multiple levels. Filmmaker Ondi Timoner’s “Last Flight Home” does this by portraying a family as it prepares for the loss of its patriarch, who has chosen ...
8 Jun 202326min
CQ Budget: Debt limit deal examined
The bipartisan deal to suspend the debt limit into 2025 ended months of partisan wrangling, heated rhetoric and some contentious rounds of negotiating. CQ Roll Call's David Lerman, Peter Cohn and Lind...
2 Jun 202332min
