Coronavirus Special Report: "I'm very concerned. We are going in the wrong direction"
In today’s episode we break down the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing that heard from America’s leading public health officials. The news about the pandemic is grim. Lea...
30 Juni 20206min
Budget deep dive: COVID-19’s impact on Social Security and Medicare trust funds
An economic recession triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic means a drop in payroll tax revenues that finance the Social Security and Medicare trust funds. CQ Roll Call’s David Lerman and Jennifer Shutt ...
30 Juni 202016min
Coronavirus Special Report: COVID-19 prompts the House to push harder for health care coverage
In today's episode, we look at how the pandemic is pushing lawmakers to reexamine health care policy, the backlash over pricing for drugmaker Gilead's experimental COVID-19 drug and how numbers of tho...
29 Juni 202010min
Coronavirus Special Report: Former DHS head Tom Ridge on secure voting and the pandemic
In this episode, we bring you the latest on health policy news and why Tom Ridge, who is also a former Republican governor of Pennsylvania, has joined a bipartisan effort to secure voting in November....
24 Juni 202011min
Coronavirus Special Report: Mr. Fauci goes to Washington
In today’s episode we listen to Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and the star witness at a House Energy and Commerce hearing. Fauci hasn’t test...
23 Juni 20207min
Budget deep dive: Breakdown in the Senate appropriations process
Partisan tensions over coronavirus aid and police brutality now threaten to derail the Senate appropriations process, while the House Appropriations Committee prepares for an extremely busy July. Davi...
23 Juni 202015min
The Future Of: Transportation
In this new, occasional series, The Future Of, CQ Roll Call brings you a podcast that reimagines how policies will change because of COVID-19. In this episode we explore the future of public transport...
19 Juni 202026min
Coronavirus Special Report: Why contact tracing and masks matter
In this episode, we delve into health care policy and some of the methods that public health officials say can help contain the coronavirus from spreading further. We have two reports: one on contact ...
18 Juni 20208min
