Skip to content
RollCall logo

Podcasts

Appropriators face busy summer following COVID-19 delays

CQ Budget, Ep. 159

Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., arrives for the Senate Republicans’ weekly lunch on Tuesday, June, 9, 2020. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., arrives for the Senate Republicans’ weekly lunch on Tuesday, June, 9, 2020. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call) (CQ Roll Call)
By David Lerman, Jennifer Shutt and Evan Campbell
Posted June 15, 2020 at 10:57am

The annual appropriations process is starting later than normal this year due to coronavirus-related delays.

CQ Roll Call’s David Lerman and Jennifer Shutt discuss what could trip up lawmakers as they begin debate on nearly $1.4 trillion in spending.

Also Read:

Recent Stories

President Donald Trump speaks Friday during a Turning Point USA event at the Dream City Church in Phoenix.

Trump hits cultural issues in midterms pep talk to Turning Point crowd

McKinley listens during a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on Oct. 12, 2017. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Former House member David McKinley dies at 79

A Cannon House Office Building exit door is seen in 2023.

Resign of the times  — Congressional Hits and Misses

Republicans struggled with passing long-term extensions of FISA and the distraction of a Trump administration fight with the pope, but did swear in a new member. Rep. Clay Fuller, R-Ga., his wife Kate and Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., pose at his ceremonial swearing-in on Tuesday.

A week of lots of noise, few results in Congress

Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. arrives to testify at a House Ways and Means Committee hearing in the Longworth House Office Building on Thursday.

RFK Jr. distances himself from measles outbreak, bashes Tylenol study

Spectators are seen on North Capitol Street during the Rock 'n' Roll half marathon on March 21.

Senate sends short-term surveillance reauthorization to Trump