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Kerry Picket

Kerry Picket

Kerry Picket is a senior congressional reporter for The Washington Times. 

Picket covered the hill at other DC-based outlets including the Daily Caller and the Washington Examiner. Before that, she produced news for Robin Quivers of The Howard Stern Show on SiriusXM, wrote entertainment news for MTV Radio, and worked as a production assistant at MTV.com. 

Picket is also a former radio guest host at SiriusXM Patriot 125 and appears frequently as a guest commentator on cable news programs and syndicated radio shows. 

She can be reached at kpicket@washingtontimes.com.

Articles by Kerry Picket

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., votes for Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., in the House chamber as the House meets for a second day to elect a speaker and convene the 118th Congress in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) **FILE**

GOP privacy hawks get another chance to torpedo FISA

A group of House Republicans will get another chance to sink the reauthorization of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act's warrantless spying with a vote to reconsider the bill's passage. Published April 15, 2024

Rep. Mike Turner, R-Ohio, speaks during a House Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Nov. 20, 2019. Turner says he has information about a serious national security threat and urges the administration to declassify the information so the U.S. and its allies can openly discuss how to respond. Turner, a Republican from Ohio, gave no details about the threat in his statement. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) **FILE**

Fight over FISA heads to a House vote

Lawmakers on the House Intelligence and Judiciary committees faced off over an overhaul of the government's top spying tool on Tuesday ahead of the House's expected vote on it this week. Published April 9, 2024

Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, questions Special Counsel Robert Hur during a hearing of the House Judiciary Committee in the Rayburn Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Nathan Howard)

FISA fight heats up among Republicans as deadline looms

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, Ohio Republican, took a swipe at national security hawks over their insistence that the government's top spying tool be reauthorized without a warrant requirement. Published April 8, 2024

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., speaks at the Capitol in Washington, Feb. 29, 2024. House Democrats on Tuesday, March 12, 2024, launched a long-shot effort to push $95 billion in aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan to a vote. The move ramps up pressure on Johnson to take up the foreign funding package. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Speaker Johnson pushes lawmakers to support FISA reauthorization vote next week

House Speaker Mike Johnson told lawmakers in a "dear colleague" letter that he would bring a bill to the floor that reauthorizes the government's most powerful spying tool, pushing them to get behind the bill that overhauls the law but does not rein in warrantless surveillance of electronic communication abroad that sometimes snares Americans. Published April 5, 2024

Former President Donald Trump, left, is welcomed by Michael Whatley, then-chairman of the N.C. GOP, before he speaks at the North Carolina Republican Convention, June 5, 2021, in Greenville, N.C. (AP Photo/Chris Seward) ** FILE **

Trump, RNC score $65.6 million campaign haul in March

The Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee announced Wednesday that they raised more than $65.6 million in March, ending the month with over $93.1 million cash on hand. Published April 3, 2024