CQ Roll Call Policy Briefs

In this CQ Roll Call's Policy Brief, Shawn Zeller examines how Congress has been stripped of power in favor of the White House and what a new administration could do for lawmakers next.

In this CQ Roll Call health policy brief, reporter Andrew Siddons takes a look at the administration's plan to fight COVID and the former Vice President Biden's plan. Siddons looks at the similarities and differences.

In this CQ Roll Call Policy Brief, environment reporter Ben Hulac talks about a rare bipartisan effort to pass a bill to help the environment.

CQ Roll Call's Camila DeChalus provides this brief on the administration's latest immigration policy to cap the number of refugees to 15,000 in the new fiscal year. This is the lowest admittance cap since the program was created 40 years ago.

CQ Roll Call's Transportation reporter Jessica Wehrman has the latest on the airlines that said they’d begin furloughs and layoffs of thousands of workers if federal payroll support, which expired yesterday, wasn't extended.

CQ Roll Call's Andrew Siddons reports on an 18-month House Oversight investigation that shows the extent to which drugmakers try to extend the profitable life of existing products rather than develop new ones and how price increases are more related to earnings reports and executive bonuses than research or rebates.

Bipartisan leaders of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee introduce their first legislative response to an exhaustive 18-month investigation into how two Boeing 737 Max aircraft fell from the sky. CQ Roll Call's Jessica Wehrman has this policy brief.

Some states say they have received no money for vaccine distribution, while other say they have received only a few million. What's next? CQ Roll Call's Emily Kopp, looks at the prospect of COVID-19 vaccines being distributed equitably.

In this CQ Roll Call policy brief, Shawn Zeller reveals the latest Capitol Insiders Survey of congressional staffers which offers a better understanding as to why Congress didn't do more to pass COVID relief.

Andrew Siddons offers why FDA head Stephen Hahn came out today stating that his agency will make all future decisions about approvals for COVID 19 vaccines.