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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

McCarthy pledges to boot Schiff off intel committee in a GOP majority

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy plans to eject Rep. Adam Schiff from his seat on the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence if Republicans take back the majority in November.

March 18, 2022

House lawmakers consider whether to roll back proxy voting

House lawmakers debated in a Rules Committee hearing Thursday whether to roll back their system of proxy voting, established two years ago at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

March 17, 2022

Zelenskyy’s powerful plea for help moves Congress, puts Biden on the spot to step up aid

Bipartisan pressure intensified Wednesday on President Biden to act more decisively in the Russian-Ukraine war after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy delivered a powerful speech to Congress pleading for more military firepower.

March 16, 2022

Lawmakers press Biden to help send MiG fighter jets after Zelenskyy’s address to Congress

Lawmakers stepped up pressure on President Biden to help get fighter jets to Ukraine after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's powerful appeal to Congress on Wednesday for more U.S. military support.

March 16, 2022

Sen. Rand Paul forces vote passing Senate resolution to lift public transportation mask mandate

The Senate passed a resolution Tuesday to repeal mask mandates on public transportation after Sen. Rand Paul forced it to a vote.

March 15, 2022

Legal window closing on activists seeking to boot Rep. Cawthorn off the ballot for Jan. 6 riot

Liberal activists, legal scholars and anti-Trump Republicans have hit another legal snag in their attempt to throw conservative firebrand Rep. Madison Cawthorn off the ballot for his alleged role in the Jan. 6 riot.

March 15, 2022

Rep. Lee Zeldin has slight lead over N.Y. Gov. Kathy Hochul in internal poll

An internal campaign poll for Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin shows him moving slightly ahead of Democratic New York Gov. Kathy Hochul in the race for governor.

March 14, 2022

New poll shows Republican state legislature candidates leading on a generic ballot

The GOP leads by 6 points on the state legislative generic ballot in key battleground states, according to a new poll commissioned by the Republican State Leadership Committee.

March 11, 2022

Biden faces headwinds as Iran nuclear talks near the finish line

U.S. negotiators are nearing a deal to revive the 2015 nuclear pact between Iran and world powers that was repudiated by President Trump in 2018, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Thursday, but there were also signs President Biden will face major resistance selling the deal back home.

March 10, 2022

Bipartisan House group warns Biden against looming Iran nuclear deal

A bipartisan group of 21 House lawmakers Thursday warned in a letter to President Biden Thursday they will likely oppose the impending Iran nuclear deal over concerns about reported measures that would be included in the agreement.

March 10, 2022

NRCC hits vulnerable Dems over rising gas prices in new ad

House Republicans' campaign arm on Thursday released a new digital ad targeting 10 vulnerable Democrats on record-high gasoline prices around the country.

March 10, 2022

RNC files lawsuit against Pelosi, Jan. 6 committee

The Republican National Committee filed a lawsuit Wednesday night against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Jan. 6 committee's members over the panel's subpoena of information from the RNC database.

March 9, 2022

Republicans introduce bill to require ATF to delete records of gun sales

House Republicans have introduced a bill that would require the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to eliminate any firearms transactions maintained in their records.

March 9, 2022

GOP lawmakers pressure Biden to take steps to help Taiwan

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy warned President Biden not to make the same mistake with Taiwan related to delaying the sale of military weapons as the administration previously did with Ukraine.

March 9, 2022

Former AG Bill Barr says FBI’s Trump-Russia probe put Moscow where it is today

Former Attorney General William P. Barr called the FBI's Trump-Russia collusion investigation a "political dirty trick" that put Moscow in the position it is in today.

March 9, 2022

Democrats denounce Biden for going to dictators for new oil imports

Democrats took turns taking swipes at President Biden for seeking new oil imports in countries led by dictators now that the U.S. put the kibosh on Russian oil imports.

March 8, 2022

Rep. Darrell Issa says U.S. is already within early phases of World War III with Russia

Rep. Darrell Issa says that establishing a no-fly zone to block Russian fighter jets from the skies over Ukraine is vital as the U.S. is already in the initial stages of World War III.

March 8, 2022

Offensive tweets force South Dakota Democrat out of House race after one day

A South Dakota Democrat withdrew from a congressional race just one day after he announced his candidacy, after a series of disturbing posts from his Twitter account was found.

March 7, 2022

History in the making: More Black Republicans running for Congress than ever before

A record number of Black GOP candidates are running for Congress this year, Republicans say, a trend that accelerated since President Donald Trump's expansion of the conservative base in his 2016 campaign for the White House.

March 7, 2022

Harris compares Republicans to 1960s Alabama state troopers on ‘Bloody Sunday’

Vice President Kamala Harris used her visit to Selma, Alabama, as an opportunity to compare state Republicans who passed new election laws to 1960s state troopers who attacked Black civil rights protesters as they crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge.

March 6, 2022

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Kerry Picket

Articles by Kerry Picket

McCarthy pledges to boot Schiff off intel committee in a GOP majority

House lawmakers consider whether to roll back proxy voting

Zelenskyy’s powerful plea for help moves Congress, puts Biden on the spot to step up aid

Lawmakers press Biden to help send MiG fighter jets after Zelenskyy’s address to Congress

Sen. Rand Paul forces vote passing Senate resolution to lift public transportation mask mandate

Legal window closing on activists seeking to boot Rep. Cawthorn off the ballot for Jan. 6 riot

Rep. Lee Zeldin has slight lead over N.Y. Gov. Kathy Hochul in internal poll

New poll shows Republican state legislature candidates leading on a generic ballot

Biden faces headwinds as Iran nuclear talks near the finish line

Bipartisan House group warns Biden against looming Iran nuclear deal

NRCC hits vulnerable Dems over rising gas prices in new ad

RNC files lawsuit against Pelosi, Jan. 6 committee

Republicans introduce bill to require ATF to delete records of gun sales

GOP lawmakers pressure Biden to take steps to help Taiwan

Former AG Bill Barr says FBI’s Trump-Russia probe put Moscow where it is today

Democrats denounce Biden for going to dictators for new oil imports

Rep. Darrell Issa says U.S. is already within early phases of World War III with Russia

Offensive tweets force South Dakota Democrat out of House race after one day

History in the making: More Black Republicans running for Congress than ever before

Harris compares Republicans to 1960s Alabama state troopers on ‘Bloody Sunday’