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Kerry Picket

Kerry Picket

kpicket@washingtontimes.com

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.

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Democrats celebrate in the chamber as the House approves a sweeping social and environment bill, giving a victory to President Joe Biden, at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Nov. 19, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House Dems celebrate $1.75T welfare bill’s passage

House Democrats celebrated the passage Friday of President Biden's massive social welfare and climate bill, brushing aside threats that vulnerable members will be hammered over the vote by Republicans in next year's midterm elections.

November 19, 2021
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., attends a news conference, Friday, Nov. 19, 2021, after House passage of President Joe Biden's expansive social and environment bill, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Democrats brushed aside months-long divisions and pushed their expansive social and environment bill through a sharply divided House on Friday, as President Joe Biden and his party moved closer to capitalizing on their control of government by funneling its resources toward their top domestic priorities. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Speaker Pelosi dodges retirement question again

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi refused on Friday to say if she plans to run for reelection, or would make her plans known upon the possible final passage of President Biden's multitrillion-dollar spending package.

November 19, 2021
Saule Omarova of New York testifies before a Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington to examine her nomination to be the Comptroller of the Currency, Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Lawmakers clash over Treasury nominee’s Soviet background, anti-fossil fuel positions

Fireworks erupted on the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee on Thursday over President Biden's nominee to lead a top regulatory post in the Treasury Department, with Republicans challenging her worldview as a native of the former Soviet Union, and Democrats accusing the GOP of engaging in "Red Scare" tactics.

November 18, 2021
A supporter of Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin displays a flag showing Presidents Donald Trump, Ronald Reagan and Abe Lincoln at a campaign rally in Leesburg, Va., Monday, Nov. 1, 2021. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen) ** FILE **

Trump takes credit for GOP win in Virginia

Former President Donald Trump is claiming kingmaker status, contending that Republican Glenn Youngkin won the Virginia governor's race last week because of him and his supporters.

November 9, 2021
Republican N.H. Gov. Chris Sununu speaks at the annual Hillsborough County NH GOP Lincoln-Reagan Dinner, June 3, 2021, in Manchester, N.H. Sununu announced Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2021, that he's not running for U.S. Senate against Democratic incumbent Maggie Hassan. Sununu says he'll seek a fourth term as New Hampshire governor. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola) **FILE**

Sununu nixes Senate run

New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu announced Tuesday that he will not run for the U.S. Senate, dashing Republican lawmakers' hopes for a popular challenger to Sen. Maggie Hassan.

November 9, 2021