Eye on Congress

The path to avoiding a government shutdown is changing by the hour. And if an agreement on spending isn't reached in two weeks, the government will come to a grinding halt. CQ Roll Call's Paul M. Krawzak and David Lerman discuss what may go to the House floor as soon as Tuesday and what the details of a deal could look like. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Black history is often celebrated as though it were not American history. So many presidents have held up proclamations on behalf of Black history month while their policies betray Black Americans. Mary C. Curtis talks with Boston Globe opinion writer Renee Graham about the need to expose hypocrisy and view Black history in a way that honors Black Americans as equals.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Voting rights is about as hot a topic as it gets in politics right now, with the debate centered around whether voting laws pushed by Republicans amount to discrimination of minorities. One thing FEC filings are showing, though, is that amid the debate, several high-profile minority candidates and lawmakers are raising a lot of money for their 2022 campaigns. CQ Roll Call Senior Writer Kate Ackley explains on the latest Political Theater. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brian Vieaux, the President of Finlocker, sits down to talk about the economy and how to reach prospective homeowners "before the point of thought." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Democrats have so much to do and so little time. Congress faces a Feb. 18 deadline to complete overdue appropriations but distractions are multiplying. That means as each day passes the chances for a revival of the "Build Back Better" package dwindles. CQ Roll Call's David Lerman and Lindsey McPherson preview what is coming up in a very busy next few months. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There has always been a risk to being a public figure, particularly a member of Congress. Beyond the violence of events like the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol, members and their staff face threats all the time. CQ Roll Call’s own Jim Saksa reached out to every member of Congress to ask if they had received a death threat. The results were pretty shocking. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nic Carter, a partner at Castle Island Ventures, and Fennie Wang, the former associate general counsel of MakerDao, discuss and debate the value of stablecoins and what they mean for central bank digital currencies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

President Biden and others have spoken this week about breaking apart the behemoth reconciliation package known as "Build Back Better" to pass pieces of it. But as CQ Roll Call's David Lerman and Peter Cohn explain, this idea may be more complicated than it seems. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Emails made public by the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University Law School recently showed that officials under President Donald Trump tried whatever they could to rig the system for redistricting purposes. It and other government documents detailed clashes between the administration and the bureau’s experts in areas that had the potential of affecting the count and who gets elected. Mary C. Curtis sits down with Kelly Percival, with the Brennan Center’s Democracy to discuss what this all means. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the one-year anniversary of President Joe Biden's inauguration, the administration woke up to it's fifth defeat in six months in passing legislation to ensure voting rights for all. Biden had promised to put voting rights at the top of his agenda, but the path appears more fraught than ever. Mary C. Curtis speaks with White House senior advisor Cedric Richmond on what comes next. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The White House and Congress get a lot of attention for their proposals to change public law, but the Supreme Court is having an outsize effect on society with its decisions, from determining where women can get abortions, what kind of guns will be allowed in cities, how much money can be spent in politics and whether tens of millions of people will need to get a vaccine to protect public health. CQ Roll Call Legal Affairs correspondent Todd Ruger joins us on Political Theater to discuss. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Pierre Le Veaux talks about how Seed at the Table is transforming equity crowdfunding to create new opportunities for underserved entrepreneurs. Also: what regulation needs to do its job better for minority communities. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lead appropriators from both sides of the aisle are sitting down to chat. Polite chatter in the hallways of Congress has replaced boisterous accusations. Could this mean months long drama over issues like defense and non-defense spending are getting hammered out? CQ Roll Call's Jennifer Shutt and David Lerman lay out where things stand. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Host Chris Brummer discusses with fintech guru Dan Gorfine what the media missed, and should have ignored, in 2021. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

CQ Roll Call’s Jennifer Shutt and David Lerman look ahead to negotiations around the roughly $2 trillion reconciliation package and appropriations season. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For people just trying to do their jobs on Jan. 6, 2021, there wasn’t a lot of time to think. But bearing witness then and reflecting on it now are as important as ever during a time when the republic is so fragile. Three CQ Roll Call journalists look back on their coverage of the attack on the Capitol and what’s changed since then on Capitol Hill. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There is a double standard when it comes to the treatment of children of color. They are punished in schools more frequently. They are arrested more frequently. Why is this happening and why are so many Black and Brown children robbed of their childhoods? Kristin Henning, author of “The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth,” uses her experiences, data and research to paint an alarming picture. Henning sits down with Mary C. Curtis to discuss the problem and potential policy solutions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lana Swartz discusses cryptotwitter and her book “New Money: How Payments Became Social Media". Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s that time of the year, when podcasts like Political Theater do their years in review. It’s a helpful frame. But 2021 in retrospect looks a lot like 2020, an extension of something that started, but did not finish. The bitter politics of 2020 crashed into the new year with an assault on democracy on Jan. 6, and hasn't really let up. And the COVID-19 pandemic continues to define daily life. And there was much, much more. We look back at our most enlightening conversations of the year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Executive recruiter David Richardson joins the podcast to talk about where the fintech jobs will be in 2022. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices