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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DeSantis is expected to announce his run for president on Wednesday in a live conversation on Twitter alongside Twitter's Executive Chairman Elon Musk.
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Republicans across the country are pursuing legislation cracking down on social issues. A new NPR poll indicates the GOP risks being out of step with voters.
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Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., has introduced a bill to create a federal ban on abortions at 15 weeks in an attempt to force Republicans to adopt a partywide consensus on the issue. -
House passage would cap a run of success for President Biden's party as they face midterms and headwinds from former President Trump's allies.
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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Sen. Joe Manchin have revived a deal for climate measures and changes to the tax code, in addition to measures aimed at reducing health care costs.
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The Senate passed the first major gun legislation in nearly three decades. It would incentivize states to pass red flag laws and expand background checks for 18 to 21-year-olds, among other measures.
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A bipartisan gun safety bill, poised to pass the Senate, could be the first major gun measure in decades. It's a narrow bill that President Biden supports, even though he wants it to go further.
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A bipartisan group of senators is trying to settle on a narrow set of policies to address gun violence, following two shooting massacres in Texas and New York.
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The Senate vote will largely be a symbolic move by Democrats to show support for abortion rights after a leaked draft showed the Supreme Court may overturn the ruling.
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The action includes finalizing regulations that deal with ghost guns — weapons that do not have serial numbers that can be used to track them and are sometimes sold as kits to be assembled at home.
