CQ Budget: Budget reconciliation 'horse race'
Torn over strategy for passing Donald Trump's agenda, the House and Senate are on a collision course over how to use the budget reconciliation process to pass tax cuts, border security, defense fundin...
17 Jan 202527min
Political Theater: Appointed senators: The winners, seat-warmers, losers and weirdos
Appointed senators: They're a thing. Of the 206 individuals appointed to the Senate since 1913, when the Seventeenth Amendment codified direct election of senators and how to fill vacant seats, 11 of ...
15 Jan 202542min
Political Theater: So you say you want to cut $2 trillion from the federal budget
It's the most wonderful time of the year: When Washington says it will cut the federal deficit. Easier said than done! Just ask the 2011 super committee, which had a mandate and bipartisan support, an...
8 Jan 202534min
CQ Budget: GOP's fragile majority
The election of Speaker Mike Johnson for another term underscored how difficult it will be for Republicans to govern with a razor-thin majority. CQ Roll Call's Jim Saksa and David Lerman recount what ...
6 Jan 202527min
Equal Time: Why Lying in Politics Is a Danger to Democracy and Can It Be Fixed?
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23 Dec 202443min
CQ Budget: Political fallout over spending
A funding package that averted a partial government shutdown left Republicans bitterly divided and chastened. CQ Roll Call's Aidan Quigley and David Lerman examine the political fallout from a week of...
23 Dec 202427min
Political Theater: Looking ahead to 2025's biggest political stories
What's an "off year" in politics? There is no such thing, according to Nathan Gonzales, Roll Call's campaigns analyst and the publisher of Inside Elections. We run through the top developing political...
18 Dec 202441min
Political Theater: Revenge of the Senate
Is the United States Senate The World’s Greatest Deliberative Body, or is it the world's most inefficient waiting room, where senators kill time before a flurry of inefficient activity? Part 2 of our ...
11 Dec 202450min
