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FAQs about CQ Roll Call Policy Briefs:How many episodes does CQ Roll Call Policy Briefs have?The podcast currently has 313 episodes available.
October 14, 2020Immigration: Detainees placed in solitary confinementNewly unsealed documents reveal that a private immigration detention firm placed detainees in solitary confinement for failing to volunteer for clean-up duty, contradicting what the company told Congress recently. Tanvi Misra reports....more4minPlay
October 13, 2020Immigration: DHS misuses funds to round up migrants bound for the U.S.Department of Homeland Security agents in Guatemala misused State Department funds to rent unmarked vans and round up hundreds of US-bound migrants and send them to Honduras. Camila DeChalus reports on this finding by Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee....more3minPlay
October 12, 2020Health: The COVID vaccine furthest along may face a storage shortageThe Trump administration is leaving it up to states to locate medical grade deep freezers capable of storing Pfizer's vaccine, Emily Kopp reports. Medical supply chain experts describe them as "unicorns."...more3minPlay
October 12, 2020Tech: The three biggest threats to election securityCQ Roll Call's Gopal Ratnam has more on what's keeping election security experts up at night....more5minPlay
October 08, 2020Health: How different are the presidential candidates' plans to fight COVID?We compare the similarities and differences in the Trump administration's plan to fight COVID versus Joe Biden's plan. CQ Roll Call reporter Andrew Siddons takes a look after Vice President Mike Pence called Biden's plan "plagiarism" during Wednesday's vice presidential debate....more3minPlay
October 07, 2020Tech: Department of Homeland Security issues its first-ever annual threat assessmentIn this CQ Roll Call Policy Brief, Gopal Ratnam who covers tech policy discusses key findings of the first-ever annual threat assessment put out by the Department of Homeland Security. Top threats include Russia trying to seed chaos in the U.S., cyber threats and domestic terrorism which has become more lethal in light of Black Lives Matter protests....more5minPlay
October 06, 2020Health: FDA releases high vaccine standards despite White House resistanceCQ Roll Call's health reporter Emily Kopp reports on the latest FDA guidance released today which would push back the timeline for an approved vaccine against the coronavirus. President Trump has publicly promised a vaccine by November 3, the day of presidential election, going against the health agency's guidance....more4minPlay
October 06, 2020Health: COVID-19 strains Medicaid coffersCQ Roll Call's health reporter Sandhya Raman talks about the financial strain Medicaid is under. Some states are uncertain about where money will come from while the number of Americans applying for Medicaid soars as the pandemic stretches into the autumn....more4minPlay
October 05, 2020Defense: Disinformation may rise with Trump's COVID-19 diagnosisCQ Roll Call defense reporter John Donnelly examines the latest threat the military is worried about: Disinformation. US adversaries could seize on the President Trump's COVID-19 diagnosis to spread disinformation and further roil a divided country weeks ahead of the Nov. 3 election....more6minPlay
October 05, 2020Transportation: Sen. Duckworth's efforts to get lactation booths in airports pays offIn this CQ Roll Call Policy Brief, transportation reporter Jessica Wehrman explains how Sen. Tammy Duckworth was able to get a bill passed that applies airport improvement funds to build lactation rooms....more3minPlay
FAQs about CQ Roll Call Policy Briefs:How many episodes does CQ Roll Call Policy Briefs have?The podcast currently has 313 episodes available.