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Kerry Picket

Kerry Picket

Kerry Picket is a White House correspondent 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. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and a staunch ally of former President Donald Trump, arrives as House Republicans meet again behind closed doors to work on a path to elect a new speaker after House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., dropped out of the race Thursday night, sending the GOP into further disarray, at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Oct. 13, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

GOP nominates conservative firebrand Jim Jordan for speaker

Republicans nominated Rep. Jim Jordan for House speaker on Friday, a day after Majority Leader Steve Scalise abandoned the nomination when he could not garner enough support to survive a vote on the House floor. Published October 13, 2023

Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, joins other lawmakers from the conservative House Freedom Caucus at a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, May 30, 2023. Congress faces a deadline to fund the government by the end of the month, but he faces challenges from hard-right Republicans in the Freedom Caucus who reject the deal he struck over the summer with President Joe Biden on spending levels and are now demanding further cuts. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Divided Republicans pause plans to elect new speaker

Republicans hit the pause button on their plans to elect a House speaker Wednesday afternoon as they worked to unite their GOP conference behind giving the gavel to Rep. Steve Scalise. Published October 11, 2023

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise of La., speaks to reporters as he leaves a meeting of House Republicans after they voted for him to be the next Speaker of the House on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

House Republicans pick Steve Scalise for speaker

Republicans voted Wednesday to nominate Steve Scalise of Louisiana to serve as House speaker but are not done hashing out a way to ensure he'll get enough support to win the gavel in a vote on the House floor. Published October 11, 2023

Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, left, and Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., confer during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, June 8, 2022. The two GOP leaders have emerged as contenders to replace former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy who was voted out of the job by a contingent of hard-right conservatives. Jordan is now chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and a staunch ally of former President Donald Trump. House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., has long sought the top post. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

A faction of House Republicans wants a backroom deal on speaker

House Republicans, frustrated with the lack of consensus on who should be the next speaker, want the two contenders -- Majority Leader Steve Scalise and Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan -- to hash out which one of them should drop out. Published October 10, 2023