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.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday lashed out at the Supreme Court for the justices' decision to overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade, calling the high court "Trumpian" and vowing that Democrats will prevail in the midterms because conservatives ended abortion rights.
The Senate on Thursday passed the first major federal gun control bill in decades, breaking the longtime Republican blockade against further restrictions on firearms and sending the legislation to almost certain final approval by the Democratic-run House.
President Biden praised the Senate on Thursday for clearing the filibuster hurdle on the first major firearms legislation in decades but chided lawmakers for taking "too long" to get there.
A bipartisan gun-control bill cleared the Senate filibuster hurdle on Thursday, with Republicans providing the necessary votes to all but guarantee passage of the first major federal firearm laws in decades.
House Republicans have vowed to oppose the bipartisan gun control bill that was sanctioned by Senate GOP leaders who lined up the needed support for it to pass in the upper chamber as soon as Thursday.
House Republicans have named the congressional aide to Rep. Jake Auchincloss, Massachusetts Democrat, who allowed TV's Stephen Colbert's comedy crew into one of the House office buildings after hours.
Fifty House Republicans have petitioned President Biden to stop the Pentagon's plan to ban commercial production of AR-15 ammunition at the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant in Missouri, which makes as much as 40% of the commercially available AR-15 bullets in the U.S.
Republicans are preparing to take on Attorney General Merrick Garland if they win the House majority this year, including mulling impeachment, and several Department of Justice whistleblowers have come forward to help them.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Thursday said Republicans were 'politicizing' the abortion issue by blaming Democratic rhetoric for a spate of violent attacks on crisis pregnancy centers and Catholic churches around the country.
Rep. Jerrold Nadler took a swipe Wednesday at his Democratic primary opponent, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, accusing his fellow veteran New York lawmaker of being an "anti-vaxxer" and exaggerating her record as a progressive.
The House on Tuesday passed Senate-approved legislation to increase security for Supreme Court justices' families, in the wake of an alleged attempt on the life of Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh.
Far-left champion Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Tuesday endorsed Rep. Jerrold Nadler over Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney for one of New York's most-watched Democratic congressional primary elections this year.
Gun control advocates revile the AR-15 rifle as an "assault weapon" or "weapon of war" that should be banned. Yet the same gun is beloved by firearms enthusiasts so much that it is the most popular style of rifle sold in the U.S.
Federal firearms dealers are getting their licenses revoked or not renewed by the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms at a much greater rate since President Biden first came to office, a GOP lawmaker said Wednesday.