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.
Democratic lawmakers making a last-ditch attempt to pass a tax and spending bill are now weighing whether to extend COVID-era Obamacare subsidies to avoid skyrocketing premiums that will hit just as voters head to the polls in November.
The Senate on Tuesday confirmed President Biden's nominee to run the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives despite opposition from Republicans over his support for banning military-style rifles.
Rep. Adam B. Schiff, chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, wants a defense policy bill to include language blocking Congress from oversight of the military and National Guard in some cases of domestic deployment.
Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer announced Sunday he has tested positive for COVID-19 and will not return to the U.S. Capitol this week when lawmakers reconvene following a two-week recess.
Lawmakers start shuffling back to Washington on Monday after a two-week break and the House will commence its first round of legislative business with abortion rights.
The Food and Drug Administration has received more than 200,000 comments about two proposed rules that would end the sale of menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars, and many people wrote to urge the government to mind its own business.
Voters, unenthusiastic about a Trump vs. Biden rematch in 2024, are increasingly open to dumping the Republican and Democrat ticket entirely for an independent candidate.
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Tim Ryan will steer clear of President Joe Biden when Mr. Biden visits Ohio Wednesday, in a signal that party lawmakers on the ballot in November are wary of being dragged down by the increasingly unpopular president.
The House Jan. 6 committee, whose members were appointed solely by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, has interviewed more than 1,000 witnesses and obtained more than 25,000 documents related to last year's riot at the U.S. Capitol -- yet most of the evidence remains a secret.
As pressure mounts on President Biden to take more aggressive action to get Moscow to release jailed WNBA star Brittney Griner, the international chatter increasing points to a prisoner swap for convicted Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout.
Google's practice of filtering Republican campaign emails into spam filters cost the party $2 billion in donations since 2019, GOP lawmakers and the head of the Republican National Committee said.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, whose name has popped up in recent weeks as a possible 2024 presidential candidate, delivered numerous partisan broadsides at an Aspen Institute event Wednesday that was meant to serve as a tribute to the late Madeleine Albright, who died in March.
They've never been good friends -- and now appear to be political enemies. But the odd partnership between Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell nevertheless gave conservatives their biggest Supreme Court win in a generation.
Republican state Sen. Mike Flood won a special election in Nebraska to fill the 1st District seat left vacant by the resignation of former Rep. Jeff Fortenberry.
Sen. Mike Lee defeated two Republican challengers seeking to deprive him of a third term in the U.S. Senate, but he now faces a steeper challenge in November from an independent candidate with Democratic backing.
While Sen. Mike Lee is poised to win Utah's GOP Senate primary on Tuesday, Democrats are hoping a challenge by independent Never Trumper Evan McMullin could make the usually sleepy Senate contest a competitive one.
In the weeks following the 2020 election, then-President Donald Trump exhausted all avenues to stop swing states from certifying President Biden's wins, including a "pressure campaign" on the Justice Department to back election fraud claims, witnesses said Thursday at House Jan. 6 committee hearing.