Kelsey Snell
Kelsey Snell is a Congressional correspondent for NPR. She has covered Congress since 2010 for outlets including The Washington Post, Politico and National Journal. She has covered elections and Congress with a reporting specialty in budget, tax and economic policy. She has a graduate degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. and an undergraduate degree in political science from DePaul University in Chicago.
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The Senate majority leader's remarks are his strongest against the president since the Jan. 6 riot. -
Raphael Warnock has defeated Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler, according to the AP, inching the Senate closer to a Democratic majority. Jon Ossoff currently leads Republican David Perdue. -
Congressional leaders returned to familiar ground Saturday, digging in on opposite sides of a stalemate over a coronavirus relief package they all is badly needed to help struggling Americans. -
A bill to fund government agencies is stalled as Senators fight over unrelated legislation. But the Senate is poised to approve a defense bill that the president has threatened to veto. -
Bipartisan negotiators are still trying to finalize a coronavirus deal with money for states, unemployed Americans and vaccine distribution, but some want another round of direct payments. -
Earlier Tuesday, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell urged more congressional action to help the economy recover from the recession caused by the pandemic. -
The Senate majority leader releases a statement expressing condolences for Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and follows with a pledge to continue consideration of Trump's judicial nominees. -
Lewis began his nearly 60-year career in public service leading sit-ins at segregated lunch counters in the Jim Crow-era South. He went on to serve in Congress for more than three decades. -
The Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions convened Tuesday to address plans to reopen schools and workplaces amid the coronavirus pandemic. -
"By speaking to you today, maybe I can make sure his life was not in vain," Philonise Floyd told the House Judiciary Committee in a hearing about police brutality and accountability.
