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.
On Wednesday night, the House passed 223-204 a package of eight bills relating to gun control.
The Biden administration is preparing to ship out millions of COVID-19 vaccines for children under 5 in the coming weeks, likely ending months of waiting for parents and caregivers.
The U.S. government is doling out millions of dollars to railroad projects throughout the country in hopes of improving supply chains and passenger rail…
The 2022 Atlantic hurricane season is predicted to be the seventh in a row with an above-normal number of storms, according to a forecast…
It’s likely the U.S. will see more cases of monkeypox in coming weeks, but officials cautioned that it’s harder to transmit the virus than to spread respiratory illnesses like COVID-19.
Both the Biden administration and Congress moved Wednesday to try to relieve a national infant formula shortage.
Democratic appropriators in the U.S. House unveiled a $28 million emergency spending bill intended to address a nationwide infant formula shortage.
The Biden administration sought to assuage parents’ concerns over an ongoing infant formula shortage Thursday, though officials couldn’t offer a timeline for when store…
President Joe Biden signaled Monday he can accept Congress postponing action on billions in COVID-19 funding his administration says is desperately needed in the…
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders took Amazon to task Thursday at a congressional hearing, bashing the online giant’s leadership for fighting union drives and questioning…