
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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The House of Representatives, which voted to impeach Trump last week, plans to transmit the article of impeachment on Monday evening.
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On his first day in office, President Biden delivered a message of unity and signed a raft of executive actions. NPR discusses the major events of Inauguration Day.
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The Senate majority leader's remarks are his strongest against the president since the Jan. 6 riot.
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The House wants President Trump to resign or be removed for inciting the insurrection at the Capitol. Democrats are working to impeach him. Despite their condemnation, Trump says he did nothing wrong.
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House Democrats are expected to vote this week to impeach President Trump for, they say, inciting the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
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A day after an insurrection that overtook the U.S. Capitol, the Capitol's three top security officials resigned from their posts amid building pressure from lawmakers and others over failures that allowed the dramatic breach.
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Extremists, supporters of President Trump, breached the U.S. Capitol in an unprecedented violent act. Early Thursday Congress certified President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Harris' victory.
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Raphael Warnock defeated Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler, according to the AP, inching the Senate closer to a Democratic majority. Jon Ossoff currently leads Republican David Perdue.
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Lawmakers meet Wednesday to formally count the Electoral College votes. About a dozen Senate Republicans, and a large group of House GOP lawmakers, will object, but that will not change the outcome.
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A new session of Congress opens, with Nancy Pelosi looking to get reelected speaker with her slimmer majority.