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 short-term spending bill avoids a partial government shutdown, but other major issues, such as suspending the debt limit, remain unresolved. -
Republicans' opposition leaves the federal government teetering on the brink of a partial shutdown. -
Democrats must untangle a potential government shutdown Thursday, a potential federal default, a vote on a $1 trillion infrastructure bill and a related vote on as much as $3.5 trillion in spending. -
The vote is a victory for a group of bipartisan Senate negotiators who worked with the White House to craft the agreement. The measure faces an uphill path in the House. -
President Biden has offered to take raising the corporate tax rate off the table for now, but the White House and Republicans are still at odds over how to pay for an infrastructure package. -
Congressional committees now move to the next stage of finalizing the details of President Biden's $1.9 trillion bill. Democrats are using a process that can pass the legislation on a party-line vote. -
The House of Representatives, which voted to impeach Trump last week, plans to transmit the article of impeachment on Monday evening. -
The Senate majority leader's remarks are his strongest against the president since the Jan. 6 riot. -
Raphael Warnock has defeated Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler, according to the AP, inching the Senate closer to a Democratic majority. Jon Ossoff currently leads Republican David Perdue. -
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said the $2,000 relief checks have "no realistic path" in the Senate on their own. He has tied them to other provisions that Democrats blast as partisan. -
Congressional leaders returned to familiar ground Saturday, digging in on opposite sides of a stalemate over a coronavirus relief package they all is badly needed to help struggling Americans. -
As congressional leaders negotiate, other lawmakers are demanding more details. Plus, Democrats are objecting to a push by some Senate Republicans to limit emergency lending rules.
