Senior reporter, Washington bureau
Jennifer covers the nation’s capital as a senior reporter for States Newsroom. Her coverage areas include congressional policy, politics and legal challenges with a focus on health care, unemployment, housing and aid to families.Before joining States Newsroom, Jennifer covered Congress for CQ Roll Call for more than six years. As a budget and appropriations reporter, she tracked the annual federal funding process as well as disaster aid and COVID-19 spending. Jennifer is originally from northern Pennsylvania and holds degrees in journalism and political science from Penn State University. After graduating, she began her journalism career as a reporter for The Daily Times in Maryland where she covered local and state government. Jennifer then moved to Washington, D.C. to work as a web producer at Politico.
Tense power battles beginning on Capitol Hill.
Congress returns to Capitol Hill and a lengthy to-do list next week, following a six-week midterm elections break that saw Democrats outperform expectations and…
More than 42 million Americans by mid-afternoon on Monday had gotten a jump start on Tuesday’s midterm elections, casting their votes through mail-in ballots…
Democrats and Republicans have just a handful of frantic days left to convince voters who should control Congress before voting in the Nov. 8…
Default could hit Maryland hard; Hoyer calls it ‘a phony issue’ trumped up by Republicans.
Maryland had 692 confirmed monkeypox cases as of Oct. 14.
President’s executive actions will provide pardons for thousands of Americans serving federal drug sentences.
Maryland Rep. Harris calls possibility of certain exemptions being lifted ‘ridiculous.’
Hoyer travels to Pittsburgh to provide counter-programming, calls GOP agenda ‘too frightening for most American voters.’
The move follows weeks of behind-the-scenes discussions among five U.S. senators from both political parties.