Just the facts, just the facts, with Factba.se - Roll Call

Podcasts

Just the facts, just the facts, with Factba.se

Political Theater, Episode 331

President Joe Biden arrives at the Oval Office of the White House on January 23, 2023. — President Joe Biden arrives at the Oval Office of the White House on January 23, 2023. (Photo by Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

By Jason Dick

Posted July 11, 2024 at 2:37pm

Want a look at George W. Bush’s comments at the 2007 White House Correspondents’ dinner? Or what coffee shop President Joe Biden visited last weekend in Harrisburg? Or the White House briefing room seating chart from 2015? There are ways to find all of this on your own. Or there is Factba.se, the longtime go-to for all White House transcripts, calendars, releases, etc., whose database goes back decades. Factba.se founder Bill Frischling hangs out and talks about just the facts.

Show Notes:

Recent Stories

House Defense Appropriations Chairman Ken Calvert, R-Calif., says lawmakers “have time to deal with” the $1.95 billion funding question — but he still needs answers from the Navy about the request.

Lawmakers postpone decision on Virginia-class submarine money

House Foreign Affairs Chairman Michael McCaul, R-Texas, said Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken ignored "countless requests for his testimony."

House Foreign Affairs votes to recommend holding Blinken in contempt

Oklahoma Republican Sen. James Lankford is pictured in the Capitol during votes on July 31. Lankford on Tuesday blocked a resolution expressing a sense of the Senate that every patient should have the right to emergency health care, including abortion, regardless of where they live, saying that “there is no state in America where a woman faces prosecution for having an abortion.”

Filibuster’s future, emergency abortions fuel Senate debate

Republican presidential nominee and former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign event on food security in Smithton, Pa., on Monday. He was in Georgia on Tuesday.

‘Take their factories’: Trump vows to snatch jobs from other countries

Senate Judiciary Chair Richard J. Durbin says Congress will have to wield its appropriations, oversight and legislative power if faced with a corrupt presidency.

Senate Democrats bash Supreme Court’s Trump immunity ruling

A statue of country music legend Johnny Cash is unveiled during a ceremony in Emancipation Hall on Tuesday.

‘Hello, I’m Johnny Cash’: Statue of the ‘Man in Black’ unveiled at the Capitol