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When I spoke with Werner Herzog in 2019 for the Political Theater podcast, he had just released his documentary "Meeting Gorbachev," about Mikhail Gorbachev, an elegiac look at the last president of the Soviet Union and winner of the Nobel Peace P...

Welcome to At the Races! Each week we bring you news and analysis from the CQ Roll Call campaign team. Know someone who'd like to get this newsletter? They can subscribe here. A lot happened this week — elections in Wisconsin, Chicago and Denver...

The Biden administration took steps Thursday meant to strengthen the rights of transgender athletes to participate in scholastic sports while giving high schools and colleges the ability to limit eligibility for competitive teams to ensure fairness. The D...

The IRS unveiled a 10-year plan Thursday for going after upper-income households and bigger businesses that dodge taxes while also becoming a more nimble agency with top-tier customer service. The IRS mapped out how it plans to use $80 billion that Democr...

The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee said Republicans might consider legislation to "insulate" current and former presidents from state prosecutions, among other potential changes in the wake of state charges against Donald Trump in New Y...

The White House rolls out its annual post-Easter celebration Monday with flocks of kids and 30,000 eggs on the South Lawn despite suggestions that it opt for potatoes or even rocks amid an avian flu outbreak and soaring prices. The egg industry is crowing...

Mike Hinckley, founder of the Growth Equity Interview Guide and formerly of Airbnb, joins the podcast to take a deep dive into the problems and opportunities of embedded finance. Also in fintech: The post What is (good and bad about) embedded finance? app...

House Republicans already had floated the use of congressional appropriations power to retaliate against the state felony charges filed against Donald Trump — and then came the former president's all-caps post on social media Wednesday. Trump ca...

Democrat Jim Moran spent more than two decades in the House, representing northern Virginia from 1991 to 2015 and helped found the moderate New Democrat Coalition, now the largest caucus in Congress. This week, he is launching Moran Global Strategies, a l...

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On the surface, providing veterans the health care they need is one of the most bipartisan issues in Congress' appropriations process. Even in a year where Republicans are pursuing major spending cuts, appropriators have signaled that veterans funding...

If you've heard of Rep. Jeff Jackson and you're not from North Carolina, there's a good chance you've seen him on TikTok. The freshman Democrat, who represents the state's newly formed 14th District, has become a surprise social media ...

The broad outlines of an upcoming debate over a pandemic preparedness reauthorization bill are beginning to emerge as regulators, policymakers and industry groups take stock of lessons learned from COVID-19. The latest reauthorization of the 2006 pandemic...

At the tender age of 75, Peter Welch is starting from scratch, in a way. Welch became one of the oldest freshmen to ever roam the Senate's hallways after winning the seat vacated by one of the longest-serving senators ever, Patrick Leahy. Welch's ...

Liberals secured a majority on Wisconsin's highest court for the first time in over a decade with the election of Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Janet Protasiewicz on Tuesday. The result of the nationally watched race, which shattered spending records...

Donald Trump pleaded not guilty Tuesday to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records connected to a hush money payment made to a porn star, as the former president's appearance triggered a national spectacle outside a Manhattan courthouse. The 7...

The IRS will lay out its plan this week for spending $80 billion in extra funding over the next decade, Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen said Tuesday. The strategic operating plan will offer the first glimpse of exactly what the IRS has in store for fun...

Amid the frenzy over former President Donald Trump's arraignment, the White House was trying to continue with business as usual, even if no one watching cable or network news was paying attention Tuesday. President Joe Biden met with his science and t...

Arizona Republican Rep. Andy Biggs introduced more than 500 bills last Wednesday — 521 to be exact: HR 1844 to HR 2364. In just a single day, the former House Freedom Caucus chairman sponsored more bills than anyone else in an entire two-year sittin...

Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith said Tuesday she will formally block a judicial nominee from Mississippi, leaning on a contentious committee tradition that gives senators a de facto veto over appointments to district court seats in their home states. Pre...

Amid a chaotic scene of Donald Trump supporters, media and sign-toting protesters, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene was one of several members of Congress who appeared in the crowd outside the Manhattan courthouse where the former president was set to be arrai...

The administration plans to deploy federal money in former coal towns and communities losing fossil fuel jobs from two of President Joe Biden's signature legislative packages. The Treasury Department released guidance Tuesday detailing how clean energ...

A federal tribal energy loan program that has never been used is getting bipartisan attention from the leaders of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee. The Tribal Energy Loan Guarantee Program is intended to support tribal investment in energy-related proj...

If GPS-guided tractors led the previous revolution in agriculture, the next generation of farming is likely to be marked by unmanned drones with onboard sensors that can spot weeds and decide when and how much herbicide to spray to control their growth. &...

Sen. John Fetterman was discharged Friday from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, where for the past month and a half the Pennsylvania Democrat had been receiving treatment for major depression in the neuropsychiatry unit. Fetterman is back hom...

Speaker Kevin McCarthy and President Joe Biden traded letters over talks to raise the debt limit as each side sought to ramp up the pressure for a deal that would end a partisan standoff. CQ Roll Call's David Lerman, Lindsey McPherson and Paul M. Kraw...

Tempers flared this week on Capitol Hill as lawmakers rushed to finish their work before the Easter and Passover recess. Highlights of this episode include a grande exchange of words between Sens. Markwayne Mullin and Bernie Sanders during a Senate hearin...

The indictment of former President Donald Trump drew an array of reactions from lawmakers in battleground districts: Some lashed out at Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, some expressed confidence in the legal process and some simply kept quiet. Lik...

The Manhattan district attorney's office hit back Friday against "unfounded allegations" from House Republicans that the investigation of Donald Trump was politically motivated, as other members of Congress reacted further in the wake of the f...

Rosie the Riveters, Richard Gere, Damar Hamlin and Starbucks highlighted the action in and around the Capitol this week. CQ Roll Call photojournalists were there to capture the images. The post Photos of the week ending March 31, 2023 appeared first on Ro...

The Senate voted Wednesday to terminate a COVID-19 pandemic national emergency order implemented by former President Donald Trump in 2020 that was due to be terminated in May anyway. The 68-23 vote on the measure came after the House voted 229-197 in Febr...

House Budget Chairman Jodey C. Arrington said Wednesday that Congress needs to lift the debt ceiling and impose fiscal controls "immediately"; without waiting on a fiscal 2024 budget resolution. One day after President Joe Biden called on Republica...

Congressional Republicans took aim Wednesday at the District of Columbia City Council, the city's public schools, its surging crime and alleged mismanagement in City Hall as they advanced a resolution seeking to overturn a council vote for the second ...

A bipartisan group of senators released draft legislation Wednesday that would claw back executive pay in the five years leading up to a bank's failure, following President Joe Biden's call on Congress to take action. Democratic Sens. Elizabeth Wa...

Actor and activist Richard Gere, right, hugs Massachusetts Rep. Jim McGovern during a news conference outside the Capitol Tuesday on legislation that aims to bring a peaceful end to conflict between Tibet and China. The post Capitol Lens | An officer and ...

Title X, the government-supported family planning service that has helped low-income Americans access reproductive health services since 1970, served 193.5 million people during its first 50 years. But funding for the program has been flat at $286.5 milli...

The Senate on Wednesday passed a bill that would repeal two decades-old authorizations to use military force against Iraq after supporters of the legislation had fended off floor efforts to amend it, including proposals that would have singled out Iran as...

Rep. Barry Loudermilk looked to clear his name, while taking shots at the Jan. 6 Select Committee, in the first release of findings as part of the House Administration Committee's reinvestigation of the Capitol attack. Loudermilk, who chairs the panel...

Federal courts have implemented a rare tweak to their ethics rules for Supreme Court justices and federal judges following bipartisan congressional pressure. The Judicial Conference of the United States has adopted a new reporting rule for travel and othe...

Amias Gerety, former acting assistant secretary for financial institutions at the Treasury Department, discusses what's new, and what's different, in the SVB and Credit Suisse banking turmoil. Also in fintech: The post Is this crisis (really) like...

For decades, CQ has studied the votes of members of Congress and lined them up according to party unity, loyalty to the president, participation and more. There's a lot that goes into it, and people around the world look to these studies to make sense...

President Joe Biden wants to see a Republican budget before resuming fiscal talks with Speaker Kevin McCarthy. But Republicans say their budget will be delayed as they urge negotiations over raising the debt limit. CQ Roll Call's David Lerman, Lindsey...

Congressional Hits and Misses is going to the birds this week with highlights including a bald eagle visiting a House Appropriations subcommittee, Budget Chairman Jodey C. Arrington quipping about the size of his gavel, Ohio Rep. Marcy Kaptur talking Tole...

House Republicans on Friday passed a bill that would mandate local school systems give parents greater oversight over education, making good on a 2022 campaign pledge by Speaker Kevin McCarthy and providing fodder for a 2024 campaign battle over public sc...

The U.S. and Canadian governments have moved to expand their bilateral asylum-sharing agreements to include migrants who crossed the countries' shared border in between ports of entry. The expansion of the so-called Safe Third Country Agreement, outli...

A trio of House Republican leaders raised concerns Friday that border agents would be unfairly disciplined for their treatment of Haitian migrants while on horseback after an incident in 2021 got widespread attention. Rep. Jim Jordan, chairman of the Judi...

Congress returned to Washington for a shortened workweek this week. CQ Roll Call photojournalists were in the Capitol capturing the action. The post Photos of the week ending March 24, 2023 appeared first on Roll Call ....

It seems counterintuitive in a time of intense partisanship and narrowly divided government, but the share of House votes where majorities in the two parties lined up on opposite sides from each other was lower last year than has been in more than a decad...

This is the third in a series of reports about the House select committee to investigate the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol and how congressional investigations have changed in the aftermath of the panel's work. The House Jan. 6 select committee ...

The Senate Ethics Committee has admonished Sen. Lindsey Graham for soliciting campaign contributions for Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker from a Senate office building. During a Fox News interview in the Russell Building on Nov. 30, ahead of the G...