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Kerry Picket

Kerry Picket is a senior congressional reporter for The Washington Times and fill-in radio host at SiriusXM Patriot 125. She previously 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. She 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

People shop for frozen turkeys for Thanksgiving dinner at a grocery store in Mount Prospect, Ill., Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2021. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh) **FILE**

Supply chain disruption, pandemic hit Americans at Thanksgiving table

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times
Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, discusses the infrastructure bill making its way through Congress during a news conference held by the House Freedom Caucus on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Aug. 23, 2021. (AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades) **FILE**

Texas Republicans weigh replacing Rep. Louie Gohmert in Congress

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times
Darrell Brooks Jr., center, is escorted out of the courtroom after making his initial appearance, Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2021, in Waukesha County Court in Waukesha, Wis. Prosecutors in Wisconsin have charged Brooks with intentional homicide in the deaths of at least five people who were killed when an SUV was driven into a Christmas parade. (Mark Hoffman/Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel via AP, Pool)

GoFundMe pulls $5M bail fundraiser for suspect in fatal Waukesha parade crash

By Kerry Picket and Emily Zantow - The Washington Times
Security gates surround the Apple store on Thursday, June 3, 2021, in Portland, Ore., after the George Floyd protests. (AP Photo/Paula Bronstein) ** FILE **

San Francisco Apple store hit in smash-and-grab robbery

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times
Stickers featuring President Joe Biden pointing at the gas total and saying "I did that!" have been spotted at several gas stations around the country. (Kerry Picket/The Washington Times)

Frustrated drivers at gas stations stick it to Biden with ‘I did that!’ decals

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times
In this file photo, Rep. Sanford Bishop, D-Ga., a member of the House Appropriations Committee, speaks with reporters just outside the chamber, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2021. Mr. Bishop is among a number of Democrats targeted by a new National Republican Congressional Committee ad push airing just before Thanksgiving. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

NRCC expands ‘Exit List’ of targeted Democrats, hits them in Thanksgiving inflation ads

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times
Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, discusses the infrastructure bill making its way through Congress during a news conference held by the House Freedom Caucus on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Aug. 23, 2021. (AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades) **FILE**

Rep. Louie Gohmert announces bid for Texas attorney general

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times
Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., pauses during a news conference to announce her resolution to censure President Joe Biden, claiming he is not enforcing border security and immigration laws, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, June 23, 2021. A group of conservative Republicans also had criticism for Vice President Kamala Harris who is set to make her first visit to the U.S.-Mexico border since taking office. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

Rep. Lauren Boebert’s bill would block federal payouts to illegal immigrants separated under Trump

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times
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

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times
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

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times
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

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times
In this July 29, 2021, file photo, Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., speaks at a news conference held by members of the House Freedom Caucus on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File) **FILE**

Boebert’s comments on Gosar censure spark Democrats’ clapback

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times
Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., takes an elevator as the House of Representatives prepares to vote on a resolution to formally rebuke him for tweeting an animated video that depicted him striking Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., with a sword, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2021. In addition to the official censure, House Democrats want to oust him from his seats on the House Oversight Committee and the Natural Resources Committee. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House Democrats censure GOP’s Gosar, strip lawmaker of committees

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times
Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., objects to certifying Arizona's Electoral College votes during a joint session of the House and Senate convenes to count the electoral votes cast in November's election, at the Capitol, on Jan 6, 2021. Gosar is facing censure in the House over a violent video he posted online. The House will vote Wednesday, Nov. 17, on a resolution that would censure Gosar for tweeting an animated video that depicted him striking Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York with a sword. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) **FILE**

House Dems ready to censure GOP’s Paul Gosar, strip him of committee posts

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times
Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, speaks during a House Judiciary Committee oversight hearing of the Department of Justice on Thursday, Oct. 21, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Greg Nash/Pool via AP) ** FILE **

House GOP eyes probes of Afghan pullout, Fauci, Hunter Biden if they win back majority

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times
People protest outside the offices of the New Mexico Public Education Department's office, Friday, Nov. 12, 2021, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The education department proposed changes to the social studies curriculum that critics describe as a veiled attempt to teach critical race theory. Supporters say the new curriculum, which includes ethnic studies, is "anti-racist." (AP Photo/Cedar Attanasio) ** FILE **

Parent at Texas school board meeting warns CRT opponents that he is ‘locked and loaded’

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times
Rep. Lauren Underwood, D-Ill., speaks during a news conference on June 24, 2020, in Washington. She had surgery on Thursday, Nov. 11, 2021, in Chicago to remove uterine fibroids and will spend the “coming weeks” recovering in Illinois, her office said. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Conservative radio host Michael Koolidge enters race to oust Rep. Lauren Underwood in Illinois

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times
Members of Save Our Schools Arizona protest at the Arizona School for the Arts as Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey tours the school in Phoenix on Aug. 24, 2017. Arizona Gov. Ducey is defying a demand that he stop using federal coronavirus relief money to fund an education grant program that can only go to schools without mask mandates. The Republican governor also is continuing a program that gives private school vouchers to parents upset that their children's schools require masks or quarantines after being exposed to COVID-19. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin) **FILE**

School board prez accused of compiling dossier on parents who oppose masks, critical race theory

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times
Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, leaves the chamber during a vote, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 7, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

GOP Sen. Murkowski of Alaska announces reelection bid

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times
The Treasury Building is viewed in Washington, May 4, 2021, in this file photo. President Biden’s nominee of Saule Omarova for a top Treasury job has rattled several Senate Democrats because she previously said she wants the coal, oil and the gas industry to “go bankrupt." (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File) **FILE**

Biden nominee for top Treasury post under fire for extreme views on energy, Wall Street

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

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