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  • Equal Time: A moral call-to-action on climate and energy policy

    Equal Time: A moral call-to-action on climate and energy policy
    Sep 11 2025
    There had been progress on the issue of environmental justice, with the contributions of citizen-activists, who spurred the government to protect historically marginalized communities. But in the past few months, the Trump administration has made staff, program, and budget cuts that leave rural, coastal, and frontline communities vulnerable. That’s one observation of Cameron Oglesby, internationally awarded environmental justice organizer and solutions journalist. But, Oglesby says, organizations, communities and grass-roots efforts aren’t giving up on their vision for a cleaner, greener country. She joins Equal Time to explain. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    42 min
  • Political Theater: They seem fine: Life After Congress

    Political Theater: They seem fine: Life After Congress
    Sep 9 2025
    Poetry readings, brewing beer, helping out kids: Jason Dick and Jessica Wehrman talk about Roll Call’s revived Life After Congress feature and what former members do with their time, then they round it out with a little wisdom from Henry Cabot Lodge. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    27 min
  • CQ Budget: Search for an end game

    CQ Budget: Search for an end game
    Sep 8 2025
    With barely three weeks to spare, Congress and the Trump administration are struggling to settle on a strategy for a funding extension that would avoid a partial government shutdown next month. CQ Roll Call's Aidan Quigley and David Lerman discuss the competing interests at play, the status of appropriations markups, and the ongoing court battle over a White House attempt to claw back previously appropriated foreign aid. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    23 min
  • Political Theater

    Political Theater
    Sep 3 2025
    Discharge petition: congressional procedure or great band name? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    42 min
  • CQ Budget: 'Pocket rescission' showdown

    CQ Budget: 'Pocket rescission' showdown
    Sep 2 2025
    Democrats are warning that Republicans risk a partial government shutdown next month if they don't resist President Donald Trump's plan to claw back $4.9 billion in foreign aid through a so-called pocket rescission. CQ Roll Call's Paul M. Krawzak and David Lerman explain how the White House push to cancel funding without congressional approval could derail work on a bipartisan stopgap funding extension needed by month's end. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    22 min
  • Equal Time: Closing the opportunity gap in education

    Equal Time: Closing the opportunity gap in education
    Aug 15 2025
    It’s back to school time, with excitement mixed with uncertainty and anxiety. News from the Department of Education is primarily about cutting its budget or eliminating the department altogether. How will these and other proposed changes affect students? Will the traditionally underserved be short-changed, and fall further behind? James E. Ford, a former teacher of the year in North Carolina, is founder/director of CREED: the Center for Racial Equity in Education, a stand-alone nonprofit that deals explicitly with race and education issues in the state. He is also Principal at Filling the Gap Educational Consultants. Ford and his organizations have been working on solutions to education challenges the nation faces, and he is a guest on Equal Time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    40 min
  • Political Theater: How Democrats hope to flip the script on energy as a campaign issue

    Political Theater: How Democrats hope to flip the script on energy as a campaign issue
    Aug 7 2025
    Jessica Wehrman talks with David Jordan of CQ Roll Call about how energy affordability could become a sleeper issue in next year's midterm elections. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    24 min
  • CQ Budget: Rough-and-tumble September

    CQ Budget: Rough-and-tumble September
    Aug 4 2025
    The effort to avert a partial government shutdown next month could be uglier than usual after Congress left town for its August recess with partisan tensions at a fever pitch. As the Trump administration seeks to claw back funding, fights over Senate confirmations and the files of convicted sex offender Jefrrey Epstein all threaten to create a toxic brew that could derail the bipartisan appropriations process. CQ Roll Call's Aidan Quigley and David Lerman outline the challenges facing Congress this fall. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    25 min