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CQ&A Live Briefings

CQ&A Live Briefings

Thursdays at 1:00 p.m. ET

Exclusive Access. Essential Intelligence.

Every week, a different story dominates the legislative and regulatory agenda. Now you can get clarity, context, and forward-looking analysis straight from the award-winning newsroom covering the story.

CQ&A is the exclusive, client-only series that puts you face-to-face with our expert journalists to answer your most pressing questions.

Our reporters aren’t just writing about Capitol Hill; they’re in the halls every single day, with perspective and insights you simply cannot find anywhere else.

This is another opportunity to leverage our deep, nonpartisan Congressional expertise.

  • Unfiltered Insights: Hear directly from the reporters who have extra context behind the policy moves, legislative negotiations, and political jockeying that impact your strategy.
  • Targeted Expertise: Each week, veteran CQ News Editors Jessica Wehrman and Peter Cohn will be joined by CQ or Roll Call journalists who are experts on the week’s biggest policy stories—from appropriations and budget battles to healthcare, tech, and defense.
  • Your Questions Answered: Submit your questions ahead of time via email to cqa@cqrollcall.com or live during the session via chat.
  • Maximum Efficiency: A sharp, focused 30-minute briefing every Thursday at 1:00 p.m. ET while Congress is in session.

How to Unlock Your Access

This is a client-exclusive series. You only need to register once to gain access to all future briefings.

  1. Submit the form to complete your one-time registration for the series.
  2. You will receive a confirmation email each week there’s a briefing (the day before the event) with a unique, secure Zoom link to join the session.
  3. If you can’t make it live, a recording of the briefing will be made available to you the following day.

Hosted By:

Jessica Wehrman
Managing Editor, Politics and Leadership

Jessica Wehrman started at CQ Roll Call in 2019 after two decades as a regional reporter covering Washington, D.C. for papers in Ohio, Texas, Indiana, and New Mexico, also covering national education and homeland security beats for Scripps Howard News Service. After serving as a transportation policy reporter for CQ Roll Call, she became health editor in 2022 and became a managing editor in 2025. She is a native of Ohio and a proud graduate of Ohio University.

Peter Cohn
Managing Editor, Policy and Legislation

Peter Cohn has covered Washington policy fights in and out of journalism for the past 25 years, starting as a reporter at CQ Roll Call at the end of the Clinton administration, covering transportation, financial services, and telecommunications policy. Pete later covered federal budget, appropriations, tax, and trade policy for National Journal before a detour into investment research and consulting. Pete returned to CQ Roll Call in 2017 as budget and fiscal policy editor just in time for the biggest tax code overhaul in three decades. Since then, he’s steered coverage of the major legislative battles, including 2025’s budget reconciliation package and government shutdown.