Susan Ferrechio has been writing about politics and national news for more than three decades, providing coverage through six presidents and eight House speakers. She writes about politics and other top national issues for The Washington Times. Her coverage includes Congress, the presidency, elections, and energy policy with an emphasis on stories ignored by other media. She first joined The Washington Times in 1995 then moved to The Miami Herald, followed by Congressional Quarterly and The Washington Examiner, where she served as chief congressional correspondent and provided coverage for four presidential campaign cycles and countless congressional and senate races. She returned to The Washington Times in 2022 and serves as national politics correspondent. Susan has provided commentary for Fox News, MSNBC, NEWSMAX, ABC News, NewsNation, WMAL Radio, CSPAN and the McLaughlin Group. She can be reached at sferrechio@washingtontimes.com.
President Biden's green energy agenda has hiked gas prices, threatened the stability of the power grid and added $1 trillion in new regulatory costs on businesses and consumers, a new House committee report found.
Wind speeds fell dramatically in 2023, slowing turbines and decreasing renewable energy production across the United States even as billions of dollars were invested in building new wind power plants.
Former President Donald Trump is on track to win 20% or more of the Black vote in November, biting into President Biden's base and tipping the numbers in his favor nationally and, more importantly, in battleground states.
House lawmakers on Wednesday made public a slew of emails, phone records and other documents provided by IRS whistleblowers that they say show President Biden's son Hunter Biden "repeatedly lied to Congress" when he gave closed-door testimony in February about his father's involvement in his lucrative foreign business deals.
Attorney General Merrick Garland will testify on June 4 before the House Judiciary Committee, with his appearance slated weeks after the panel found him in contempt of Congress for failing to turn over audiotapes of a special counsel's interview of President Biden.
House lawmakers may ditch plans to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress and instead go to court seeking special counsel Robert K. Hur's audio recordings of his interviews with President Biden.
A late-night House committee meeting looked more like a raucous episode of "The Jerry Springer Show," with partisan bickering out of control and one lawmaker insulting another for wearing "fake eyelashes."
The House Judiciary Committee voted Thursday to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over audio recordings of special counsel Robert K. Hur's interviews with President Biden over his mishandling of classified documents.
Amid low poll numbers that have left Democrats and the Biden campaign team in a panic, the president took charge of the debate schedule Wednesday, publicly challenging former President Donald Trump to meet him on stage at CNN's Atlanta studio for a televised debate in June.
The Republican National Committee wants to double President Biden's two-debate proposal, pitching a plan to hold one debate a month in June, July, August and September.
House Speaker Mike Johnson made a surprise appearance Tuesday at former President Trump's trial in Manhattan, where he told reporters all the cases brought against Mr. Trump amount to election interference and Congress has a constitutional responsibility to investigate the prosecutors and "hold them accountable."
Republican leaders are urging the Secret Service to widen a security perimeter around the site of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee to protect delegates and attendees from potentially dangerous clashes with pro-Palestinian demonstrators who plan to swarm the event in July.
House lawmakers will vote within days to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress for failing to turn over the audio recording of special counsel Robert K. Hur's interview with President Biden, in which the prosecutor said the 81-year-old president showed a weak memory.
The Senate passed legislation Thursday authorizing the Federal Aviation Administration for the next five years over the objections of Virginia and Maryland Democrats who sought to block a provision adding ten additional flights into or out of Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
In a historic vote, 163 Democrats voted to save House Speaker Mike Johnson from a move to push him out by an ultra-right conservative who said the Republican had capitulated to the left.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a conservative hardliner opposed to bipartisan legislation ushered through the House by Republican Speaker Mike Johnson, moved to oust him Wednesday using an arcane motion that will force a vote on his speakership.
Congress should eliminate or change the rules for taxpayer funding to National Public Radio because it reports news with a significant liberal bias, experts told the House on Wednesday.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s independent bid for president isn't just a threat to President Biden. The former Democrat is courting Republicans, too, and his efforts are beginning to rankle the Trump campaign.