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Kerry Picket

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

Buttigieg calls for racial labor equity with infrastructure projects

Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg on Monday told attendees at the National Association of Counties that government infrastructure projects should be done by teams of workers who look like the neighborhood of color in which they work.

February 13, 2023

Congressional Hispanic Caucus decides to keep newly elected chair after staff exodus

The Congressional Hispanic Caucus on Monday decided to retain its present chair, Rep. Nanette Barragan, despite turmoil over staff departures in recent days.

February 13, 2023

Congressional Hispanic Caucus to decide whether to oust newly elected chair

The Congressional Hispanic Caucus Monday is expected to convene and decide whether to oust its current chair, Rep. Nanette Barragan.

February 13, 2023

House investigators home in on collusion between FBI, Democrats, news media

Top Republican senators said Thursday that their Democratic counterparts sicced the FBI on them in 2020 in an attempt to shut down their probe into how the Justice Department bungled the Trump-Russia investigation.

February 9, 2023

Rep. Jim Jordan requests documents on Big Tech censorship for probe

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan asked the Department of Justice Wednesday for copies of documents from a civil case demonstrating how the federal government allegedly pressured Big Tech companies to violate Americans' First Amendment rights.

February 8, 2023

New leadership dynamic in House shows politics doesn’t need to be personal

Nobody will ever accuse them of being pals, but Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries have embarked on their working relationship with a grudging respect that was missing when Nancy Pelosi was in charge.

February 8, 2023

Republicans oppose Biden’s proposed plan to tax ultrawealthy Americans

House Republicans opposed President Biden's plan to raise taxes on the ultrawealthy, in line with his equity agenda to level the economic playing field.

February 7, 2023

Former Trump officials say they were never informed of Chinese spy balloon surveillance

Mike Pompeo, who first served as director of the CIA and later as secretary of state under former President Trump, pushed back on claims from the Biden administration that China sent spy balloons over the U.S. in the Trump era.

February 6, 2023

House ready to lift COVID-19 travel rule requiring foreigners to get vaccinated to enter U.S.

House Republicans will bring legislation to the floor this week that would terminate the requirement imposed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for foreign travelers to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination to enter the U.S.

February 6, 2023

New House Judiciary panel subpoenas Garland, Wray over FBI targeting of parents

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan on Friday subpoenaed Attorney General Merrick Garland, FBI Director Christopher A. Wray and Education Secretary Miguel Cardona for withholding documents relating to the administration's targeting of parents at school board meetings.

February 3, 2023

Victoria Spartz announces retirement at end of term

Rep. Victoria Spartz announced Friday she is not seeking reelection to the House or launching a bid for Indiana's open Senate seat next cycle.

February 3, 2023

House Republicans launch probe into former FBI official Charles McGonigal

House Judiciary Republicans Thursday launched an investigation into Charles McGonigal, the former FBI official in charge of counterintelligence in the FBI's New York Field Office who was arrested in January over ties to a Russian billionaire.

February 2, 2023

House Speaker McCarthy announces bipartisan group to write up lawmaker code of conduct

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced Thursday that he and Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries will soon appoint a bipartisan group of lawmakers to write a code of conduct for lawmakers.

February 2, 2023

Ilhan Omar claims anti-immigrant bias from Republicans with ouster from committee

The House on Thursday removed Rep. Ilhan Omar from the Foreign Affairs Committee for her antisemitic and anti-Israel rhetoric.

February 2, 2023

GOP leadership pushes Biden to speed up end of COVID-19 health emergency

House Republicans will push forward on Wednesday to pass another end of COVID-19 public health emergency legislation after claiming President Biden caved to their pressure campaign to declare the pandemic over.

February 1, 2023

GOP lawmaker introduces resolution to remove Rep. Ilhan Omar from Foreign Affairs Committee

Rep. Max Miller introduced a resolution Tuesday to remove Rep. Ilhan Omar from the House Foreign Affairs Committee over past remarks that he says are anti-semitic.

January 31, 2023

Santos recuses self from House committee assignments

Rep. George Santos on Tuesday announced to the House Republican Conference he would step down from his committee assignments while federal and state authorities investigate him.

January 31, 2023

Republicans say they have votes to oust Omar from Foreign Affairs Committee

House Republicans say they have the support necessary to remove Rep. Ilhan Omar from the Foreign Affairs Committee despite public grumblings from a handful of GOP lawmakers about such a floor vote.

January 31, 2023

House GOP eyeing backdoor tactic to block Rep. Ilhan Omar from Foreign Affairs Committee

House Republicans are scrambling to find a legislative tactic to keep Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar off the House Foreign Affairs Committee, after failing to unify their conference behind the idea.

January 30, 2023

RNC’s Ronna McDaniel moves on after messy chair race, puts fresh focus on GOP grassroots

Ronna McDaniel easily won reelection as Republican National Committee chairwoman, but the aggressive campaign to topple her nevertheless succeeded in spilling what is usually a private quarrel into the public sphere.

January 29, 2023

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Kerry Picket

Articles by Kerry Picket

Buttigieg calls for racial labor equity with infrastructure projects

Congressional Hispanic Caucus decides to keep newly elected chair after staff exodus

Congressional Hispanic Caucus to decide whether to oust newly elected chair

House investigators home in on collusion between FBI, Democrats, news media

Rep. Jim Jordan requests documents on Big Tech censorship for probe

New leadership dynamic in House shows politics doesn’t need to be personal

Republicans oppose Biden’s proposed plan to tax ultrawealthy Americans

Former Trump officials say they were never informed of Chinese spy balloon surveillance

House ready to lift COVID-19 travel rule requiring foreigners to get vaccinated to enter U.S.

New House Judiciary panel subpoenas Garland, Wray over FBI targeting of parents

Victoria Spartz announces retirement at end of term

House Republicans launch probe into former FBI official Charles McGonigal

House Speaker McCarthy announces bipartisan group to write up lawmaker code of conduct

Ilhan Omar claims anti-immigrant bias from Republicans with ouster from committee

GOP leadership pushes Biden to speed up end of COVID-19 health emergency

GOP lawmaker introduces resolution to remove Rep. Ilhan Omar from Foreign Affairs Committee

Santos recuses self from House committee assignments

Republicans say they have votes to oust Omar from Foreign Affairs Committee

House GOP eyeing backdoor tactic to block Rep. Ilhan Omar from Foreign Affairs Committee

RNC’s Ronna McDaniel moves on after messy chair race, puts fresh focus on GOP grassroots