Eye on Congress

Congress has passed the fiscal year 2021 spending bill to fund the federal government through September next year. CQ Roll Call’s Jim Saksa breaks down what you need to know. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Congress has passed the fiscal year 2021 spending bill to fund the federal government through September next year. CQ Roll Call’s Jim Saksa breaks down what you need to know about housing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Congress has passed the fiscal year 2021 spending bill to fund the federal government through September next year. CQ Roll Call’s Jessica Wehrman breaks down what you need to know. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Congress has passed the fiscal year 2021 spending bill to fund the federal government through September next year. CQ Roll Call’s Joseph Morton breaks down what you need to know. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

 Congress has passed the fiscal year 2021 spending bill to fund the federal government through September next year. CQ Roll Call’s Ellyn Ferguson breaks down what you need to know about the agriculture department. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Congress has passed the fiscal year 2021 spending bill to fund the federal government through September next year. CQ Roll Call’s Ben Hulac breaks down what you need to know. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

 Congress has passed the fiscal year 2021 spending bill to fund the federal government through September next year. CQ Roll Call’s Camila DeChalus breaks down what you need to know. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Congress has passed the fiscal year 2021 spending bill to fund the federal government through September next year. CQ Roll Call’s Jenn Shutt breaks down what you need to know about the omnibus package. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Congress has passed the fiscal year 2021 spending bill to fund the federal government through September next year. CQ Roll Call’s Mary Ellen McIntire breaks down what you need to know about HHS. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fintech Beat sits down with Matt Harris, partner at Bain Capital Venture, to discuss how the COVID-19 crisis has accelerated trends of automation and fintech adoption, and what it means for the future of fintech. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It has been months in the making but Congress finally compromised and agreed to a COVID-aid package. CQ Roll Call's budget tracker David Lehrman breaks it down. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're looking at a dispute that is threatening the delicate coronavirus relief bill negotiations that are also tied to a Friday at midnight government funding deadline. The GOP wants to limit Federal Reserve lending programs that would tie the hands of a Biden administration. Also, we examine what energy and environment policy will look like as President-elect Biden's Cabinet comes into focus. CQ Roll Call's Jim Saksa hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's former policy planning director Anne-Marie Slaughter shocked the world when she quit her high-powered job and wrote an article for The Atlantic, "Why Women Still Can't Have it All." Fast forward eight years. One book later and the head of the think tank New America, Slaughter has done a lot of writing and thinking about working mothers. The pandemic has upended families and profoundly wounded working mothers. CQ Roll Call's Shawn Zeller sits down with Slaughter to discuss the future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Among the accomplishments of President Donald Trump is a crash-course in civics that showed the public that a lot of government business and transparency happens because of good will and cooperation, not statute. In the wake of Trump's busting so many norms about the presidency, there is discussion about what Congress can do to more clearly define presidential power in areas like releasing tax returns, congressional subpoenas and the pardon authority. CQ Roll Call Senior Writer Todd Ruger discusses how future presidents could be affected.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With the Electoral College certifying Joe Biden’s victory, and Senate Republicans acknowledging that fact, is the presidential race finally over? Not a chance! Katherine Tully-McManus discusses possible challenges to the congressional counting of electoral votes. Meanwhile, Biden picks Pete Buttigieg for Transportation Secretary and then heads to Georgia to stump for the Democrats in key Senate races coming up in less than a month. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Public documents released Tuesday show the efficacy of a vaccine produced by Moderna. If approved this week by the FDA another wave of COVID-19 vaccines will be made available to the public. CQ Roll Call's Emily Kopp reports. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lawmakers are close to releasing text on a $1.4 trillion omnibus spending package which keep the government funded for the next year. But despite hope that COVID-19 relief might be a part of the spending package, key stumbling blocks still remain. CQ Roll Call’s Jennifer Shutt and David Lerman discuss the state of the spending package and what stumbling blocks lay ahead for a deal on COVID-19 relief. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hong Kong University professor Douglas Arner joins the Fintech Beat podcast to talk about the origins of Ant Group, its regulatory shortcomings in the Chinese financial system, and when he expects to see an IPO. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're delving into why White House officials and members of Congress may be at the head of the line to get a COVID-19 vaccine. CQ Roll Call's Niels Lesniewski has more. We'll also explore what Biden's Cabinet nominees may face if the Senate doesn't flip to blue. Shawn Zeller explains. Katherine Tully-McManus hosts this special edition of Political Theater. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Both the House and Senate are close to an agreement on an omnibus package to fund the government for the remaining fiscal year and could file text as soon as tomorrow. CQ Roll Call's Jennifer Shutt reports. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices