Episodes

  • CQ Budget: Disaster aid scrubbing

    CQ Budget: Disaster aid scrubbing
    Nov 22 2024
    Lawmakers are torn over the size and shape of a disaster relief package headed for a vote next month. CQ Roll Call's Aidan Quigley and David Lerman discuss the latest on disaster aid, overdue appropriations, a new Senate defense budget writer, and a House firebrand's new role in curbing government spending. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    28 mins
  • Political Theater: A very judgy lame duck

    Political Theater: A very judgy lame duck
    Nov 21 2024
    If you're paying attention to the Senate, you know they're voting on a lot of judges, as happens during lame duck congresses. There are also a lot of partisan broadsides being fired about it all. How did we get to this point and why? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    26 mins
  • Political Theater: Who are these guys? The Congress-to-Cabinet revue

    Political Theater: Who are these guys? The Congress-to-Cabinet revue
    Nov 14 2024
    President-elect Donald Trump has picked several current and former members of Congress for his Cabinet and senior staff. Here’s a quick and dirty on the roster, which includes former Democrats, former critics and one avowed dog killer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    40 mins
  • CQ Budget: Funding strategy unresolved

    CQ Budget: Funding strategy unresolved
    Nov 12 2024
    Congress returns for a lame-duck session with a major decision to make on fiscal 2025 spending: whether to pass an omnibus package by Christmas or punt spending bills into the new year. CQ Roll Call's Aidan Quigley, Caitlin Reilly and David Lerman assess the political ramifications of the choice, the crowded lame-duck agenda, and the challenge for Republicans in their quest for tax cuts next year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    26 mins
  • Political Theater: 5 big questions about this election with Nathan Gonzales

    Political Theater: 5 big questions about this election with Nathan Gonzales
    Nov 7 2024
    So, we have questions in the aftermath of this election. Who is the leader of the Democratic Party? What lessons do Republicans take from their victories? Do we have to keep calling it a "Blue Wall." And more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    14 mins
  • Political Theater: The last Most Vulnerable Incumbents lists of the 2024 cycle

    Political Theater: The last Most Vulnerable Incumbents lists of the 2024 cycle
    Oct 31 2024
    Roll Call looked under every nook, cranny and poll to round off the Most Vulnerable Incumbents lists for the 2024 cycle. Find out how and why who got where! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    33 mins
  • Equal Time: How a battle for locker-room access was about so much more

    Equal Time: How a battle for locker-room access was about so much more
    Oct 28 2024
    Sports and politics don’t mix. In truth, that has never been the case. Sports, in fact, reflect every issue, every conflict in society from civil rights to equal justice. Melissa Ludtke knows this from experience. In the 1970’s, when she was trying to cover Major League Baseball for Sports Illustrated, her path to doing the job – which required equal access to the players – was blocked by a powerful and inflexible commissioner. The battle mirrored America’s burgeoning women’s movement, and ultimately ended up in federal court, presided over by a judge with her own civil rights experience. Ludtke tells the story in “Locker Room Talk: A Woman’s Struggle to Get Inside,” and on this episode of Equal Time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    46 mins
  • Political Theater: But is it art? Unpacking ‘The Apprentice’

    Political Theater: But is it art? Unpacking ‘The Apprentice’
    Oct 23 2024
    For many film buffs, October is Scary Movie Month, when we go to the vault to watch "Last House on the Left" or head to the theater to catch "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice." It is also election season. So does "The Apprentice" fit in here? It’s a biopic about the relationship between Roy Cohn and a young Donald Trump and how Cohn helped shape the future president’s no-holds-barred approach to business, politics and life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    23 mins