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Kerry Picket

Kerry Picket

kpicket@washingtontimes.com

Kerry Picket is a White House correspondent for The Washington Times.
Picket covered the hill at other DC-based outlets including the Daily Caller and the Washington Examiner. Before that, she produced news for Robin Quivers of The Howard Stern Show on SiriusXM, wrote entertainment news for MTV Radio, and worked as a production assistant at MTV.com.
Picket is also a former radio guest host at SiriusXM Patriot 125 and appears frequently as a guest commentator on cable news programs and syndicated radio shows.
She can be reached at kpicket@washingtontimes.com.

Articles by Kerry Picket

Rep. Jim Jordan speaks at a campaign rally in Youngstown, Ohio., Saturday, Sept. 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Tom E. Puskar) ** FILE **

House Republicans pass first pro-life measures in post-Roe era

The new House Republican majority launched its pro-life legislative agenda on Wednesday, passing measures protecting infants born alive during an abortion and condemning recent attacks on anti-abortion facilities and churches that provide aid to pregnant women.

January 11, 2023
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., and Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., look at vote totals during the roll call vote on the motion to adjourn for the evening in the House chamber as the House meets for a second day to elect a speaker and convene the 118th Congress in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Marjorie Taylor Greene transforms rebel image at McCarthy’s side

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene went from being an accused insurrectionist stripped of committee assignments as a freshman congresswoman to a key negotiator in the House Republican Conference who helped persuade fellow conservatives to vote to elect Speaker Kevin McCarthy.

January 9, 2023
House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., leaves a private meeting room off the floor as he negotiates with lawmakers in his own party to become the speaker of the House, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

McCarthy appeals to holdouts as House sits in limbo

Kevin McCarthy, who faces opposition from a faction of 20 conservatives, offered a comprehensive list of concessions to the holdouts, who have been demanding changes to the House rules and greater influence on the GOP's legislative agenda.

January 5, 2023