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Susan Ferrechio

Susan Ferrechio

sferrechio@washingtontimes.com

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.

Articles by Susan Ferrechio

In this combo of file images, Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., chair of the House Oversight Committee, speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, on, March 11, 2020. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., listens as the panel holds an emergency meeting on gun control measures, at the Capitol in Washington, on June 2, 2022. Maloney and Nadler, two of New York’s longest-serving members of Congress, have turned from allies to rivals after a court redrew the state’s congressional maps. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, left, and J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Nadler knocks off Maloney in battle of Democratic House incumbents

Rep. Jerry Nadler prevailed Tuesday in a bitter primary slugfest for the Democratic nomination for New York's 12th Congressional District seat, defeating fellow veteran lawmaker Carolyn Maloney in one of the most closely watched congressional primaries of the year.

August 23, 2022
Former President Bill Clinton smiles as he plays a recording of Aretha Franklin on his phone during the funeral service for Franklin at Greater Grace Temple, Friday, Aug. 31, 2018, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya) **FILE**

Presidential records found right in Clinton’s drawer

A 2012 court case denying access to White House audiotapes kept in former President Bill Clinton's sock drawer after he left office could help the Trump legal team in its battle to retrieve records that the FBI seized from Mar-a-Lago this month.

August 22, 2022
Mehmet Oz, a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, takes part in a Republican Jewish Coalition event in Philadelphia, Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Democrats beating back ‘red wave’: ‘Senate races are just different’

So much for a Republican wave, at least in the U.S. Senate. Democratic candidates running in the most critical Senate races of the midterm elections appear to have captured the momentum from Republicans, climbing ahead in polling and sending a warning to GOP leaders that the so-called red wave isn't reaching the doors of the U.S. Senate.

August 19, 2022
Protestors gather before the arrival of the Trump Organization's former Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg at court, Friday, Aug. 12, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Trump faces off with Garland in high-stakes fight

Democrats and other opponents of former President Donald Trump are clamoring for the Justice Department to lock 'em up a week after the FBI's unprecedented raid of Mr. Trump's Mar-a-Lago home.

August 15, 2022