Kelsey Snell
Kelsey Snell is a Congressional correspondent for NPR. She has covered Congress since 2010 for outlets including The Washington Post, Politico and National Journal. She has covered elections and Congress with a reporting specialty in budget, tax and economic policy. She has a graduate degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. and an undergraduate degree in political science from DePaul University in Chicago.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer are breaking from their demand for a more than $2 trillion in coronavirus relief spending to endorse a bipartisan bill. -
Portman will participate in a Phase 3 clinical trial for the coronavirus vaccine. He's the first senator to participate in a trial and hopes it will promote safety of vaccines once approved. -
House Democrats are on track to begin next year with the slimmest majority in decades. Now members on the progressive left and party moderates must decide whose policies should govern. -
House Democrats are on track to begin 2021 with the slimmest majority in decades. Members on the progressive left and moderates are again at odds over whose policies should drive the Democratic party.
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Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan won re-election Wednesday, giving Republicans control of 50 seats in the Senate as two races in Georgia head to runoffs in January. -
Democrat Cal Cunningham said in a statement that "the voters have spoken." The Associated Press later called the race. -
President-elect Joe Biden will need to get his agenda through Congress, but Republicans are likely to keep control of the Senate, and Democrats in the House have a smaller margin. -
House Democrats hope to pick up seats in this election and add to their 232-197 majority. They have focused on President Trump's handling of the coronavirus and threats to the health care law. -
Amy Coney Barrett's Supreme Court confirmation hearing is moving ahead under exceedingly unusual circumstances, with Election Day looming and a coronavirus outbreak still roiling Washington. -
But a top aide to Speaker Nancy Pelosi tweeted that she spoke to the treasury secretary Wednesday about a standalone measure to help airlines. A previous attempt to do this failed amid GOP opposition.
