Paul Kane

Washington, D.C.

Senior congressional correspondent and columnist

Education: University of Delaware, BA

Paul Kane has covered Congress since 2000, when he started at Roll Call with a beat focused on the Senate. He started with The Washington Post in 2007, covering the 2008 financial crisis and the Obama-Republican fiscal wars. He began writing a regular column, @PKCapitol, on Congress and its interactions with the Trump administration in 2017. He's covered Washington's response to the global pandemic, the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, two impeachments and now writes about the Biden administration's legislative agenda on Capitol Hill.
Latest from Paul Kane

Congress struggles to see expanding foreign funding of U.S. sports

After Tuesday's Senate hearing on a massive Saudi-funded golf deal, Republicans and Democrats fail to recognize how much Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds are pouring into sports.

July 12, 2023

Republicans say they would like to call witness despite criminal indictment

Republicans spent weeks defending Gal Luft as a valuable informant to possible ethical misdeeds by the Biden family. Now he's been indicted for alleged crimes related to China and Iran.

July 11, 2023

Supreme Court was drawn into last four elections, and likely again in 2024

Through two election-year deaths, a sexual misconduct scandal and a controversial abortion ruling, the Supreme Court has become a consistently political body that is swept into campaigns.

July 8, 2023

Supreme Court rulings scramble Congress seats in South for rising GOP stars

Supreme Court decisions look likely to add Democratic seats in the Southern "Black Belt," while several younger Republicans may see their careers cut short.

July 1, 2023

Today’s Senate: Less debate, fewer votes and taking forever to do it

The world's greatest deliberative body is holding fewer and fewer debates, while Senate roll-call votes linger for hours on end.

June 24, 2023

Senate Republicans love Tim Scott. They just can’t say so politically.

Many GOP senators believe Trump is hurting their party’s chances of winning the majority, but they are not ready to endorse another candidate in the primary race.

June 17, 2023

Dianne Feinstein urged to retire, unlike past Democrats. What changed?

From the California senator to President Biden, Democrats now confront a different set of issues related to calls for generational change than they did just 15 years ago.

June 10, 2023

House heads home after hard-right Republicans defy McCarthy, block legislation

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) admitted he was "blindsided" by the rebuke, but insisted the Republican caucus would emerge stronger.

June 7, 2023

After PGA Tour’s Saudi deal, outrage but no clear path to blocking it

Amid outrage over the PGA's deal with Saudi investors, some lawmakers called for more scrutiny, citing antitrust issues, concerns over foreign money and the Kingdom's cozy relationship with President Trump.

June 7, 2023

Hard-right Republicans, still angry over debt ceiling, foil McCarthy on vote

The outcome underscored the anger that several members of the House Freedom Caucus still harbored toward House Speaker Kevin McCarthy over his handling of a bipartisan debt ceiling bill.

June 6, 2023