Eye on Congress

States are beginning to receive rapid antigen tests from the White House and are trying to figure out the best ways to incorporate COVID-19 testing in their K through 12 schools. CQ Roll Call's Mary Ellen McIntire reports.CQ Roll Call's Mary Ellen McIntire reports. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

CQ Roll Call's Benjamin J. Hulac looks ahead at the top environmental and energy policy concerns for whichever presidential candidate wins. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

CQ Roll Call's Ellyn Ferguson looks ahead at the top agricultural and trade policy concerns for whichever presidential candidate wins. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

CQ Roll Call's Jim Saksa looks ahead at the top financial services and financial technology policy concerns for whichever presidential candidate wins. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

CQ Roll Call's Kate Ackley looks ahead at the top lobbying and campaign finance concerns for whichever presidential candidate wins. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

CQ Roll Call's Camila DeChalus looks ahead at the top immigration and border security policy concerns for whichever presidential candidate wins. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

CQ Roll Call's Paul M. Krawzak looks ahead at the top fiscal policy and budget concerns for whichever presidential candidate wins. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

CQ Roll Call's David Lerman looks ahead at the top spending policy concerns for whichever presidential candidate wins. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

CQ Roll Call's Rachel Oswald looks ahead at the top foreign policy concerns for whichever presidential candidate wins. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

CQ Roll Call's Jessica Wehrman looks ahead at the top transportation and infrastructure policy concerns for whichever presidential candidate wins. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

CQ Roll Call's Mary Ellen McIntire looks ahead at the top health policy concerns for whichever presidential candidate wins. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

CQ Roll Call's Doug Sword looks ahead at the top tax policy concerns for whichever presidential candidate wins. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

CQ Roll Call's John M. Donnelly looks ahead at the top defense and national security policy concerns for whichever presidential candidate wins. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

CQ Roll Call's Dean DeChiaro looks ahead at the top technology policy concerns for whichever presidential candidate wins Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Conventional wisdom might suggest that GOP senators should run away from an unpopular president like Donald Trump. But as Shawn Zeller explains, CQ Roll Call data shows otherwise. What's more: Many Democratic senators voted with the president as well. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

John Ratcliffe, the director of national intelligence, in a hastily assembled news conference late Wednesday, said that Iran and Russia had managed to steal voter registration information and were targeting voters, spreading disinformation, intended to harm President Donald Trump. CQ Roll Call's Gopal Ratnam explains why Ratcliffe’s warnings immediately drew skeptical reactions from Democratic lawmakers and former intelligence officials.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

MacArthur “genius” grantee, founder of Repairers of the Breach, and organizer of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, Rev. William J Barber II has made eradicating poverty his life's work. He sits down with host Mary C. Curtis for a candid and surprising conversation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is the biggest lawsuit against any technology company since 1998 when an antitrust lawsuit was filed against Microsoft. CQ Roll Call's Dean DeChiaro explains how this increased scrutiny against Google is bipartisan and may have ripple effects against big tech. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Clinical trials for COVID-19 therapeutics and vaccines are well under way and some drugs are already being given tentative approvals, with a vaccine likely to follow in coming weeks. But some of the populations that are most affected by the pandemic — the elderly and communities of color — are underrepresented in the research. CQ Roll Call's Andrew Siddons reports on what this could mean. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The cruise industry, shut out of federal COVID-19 aid and ordered not to sail through Oct. 31, is now the subject of even more scrutiny. Democratic lawmaker Sean Maloney wants to know if the Trump administration intervened in a decision on when cruises can safely resume sailing. CQ Roll Call's Jessica Wehrman reports. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices