- Ed O’Keefe
- Congressional reporter
Ed O’Keefe covers Congress for The Washington Post and is author of 2chambers, a blog tracking the House and the Senate.
He previously authored The Federal Eye, a blog keeping tabs on federal agencies, federal employees, government oversight and related issues. During the 2008 election season, Ed traveled the campaign trail as a washingtonpost.com videojournalist, blogger and contributor to the newspaper.
Ed joined The Post in 2005 as a washingtonpost.com home page producer, and later served as a producer and on-air contributor to Washington Post Radio. He is a frequent guest on national radio and television outlets, including BBC, France 24, MSNBC, NPR stations, Sirius/XM POTUS and Washington Post-owned television stations. He graduated from American University with a degree in political science in 2005.
- House to begin debate Wednesday on bill banning abortions based on sex of child
- Marco Rubio visits Guantanamo Bay in first visit to Cuba
- House Republicans’ summer schedule heavy on jobs and repealing ‘Obamacare’
- Postal Service bill: House leaders set vote after July Fourth
- Secret Service director apologizes as senators detail new misconduct allegations
- Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan apologizes for Colombia prostitution scandal
- Secret Service hearing ‘an important day’ for Director Mark Sullivan, lawmaker says
- Congressional discourse getting dumber, study says
- Gregory Jaczko, chief of Nuclear Regulatory Commission, resigns
- Gregory Jaczko, Nuclear Regulatory Commission chief’s departure tied to diminishing congressional support
- Barney Frank needs a vacation (and what else is going on this week in Congress)
- Does Nancy Pelosi want to serve again as Speaker? She won’t say.
- Mitch McConnell, John Boehner double down on deficit concerns
- Ryan budget still an issue in congressional races
- As Obama backs gay marriage, House GOP tries to limit gay-friendly policies
- House ethics panel won’t launch full probe into Vern Buchanan
- Noting personal beliefs, Reid says gay marriage should be left to states
- House ethics panel won’t launch full probe into Vern Buchanan
- Sen. Mark Kirk of Illinois describes his recovery in video
- Pete Sessions: ‘100 percent’ of GOP House candidates would campaign with Mitt Romney
- John Kerry’s tribute to Richard Lugar
- Export-Import Bank reauthorized by House; Senate expected to act soon
- In hours after Colombia sex scandal, ‘significant gaps’ in military chain of command, lawmaker says
- IRS may issue $26 billion in fraudulent tax refunds, watchdog tells Congress
- Student loan plan fails in the Senate
- Gregory Jaczko, nuclear safety chief, under fire from House Republicans
- Gay marriage: a ‘very clear distinction’ between Obama and Romney, Axelrod says
- Rep. Kristi Noem earns her college degree
- Rep. Kathy Hochul confronts student loan horror stories
- What do John Edwards and Newt Gingrich have in common? (A look at the week ahead in Congress.)
- House Democrats plan to pounce again on GOP budget
- Sen. Mark Kirk heads home to continue recovery
- Secret Service employees paid 9 of the 12 women they met in Colombia, agency says
- Secret Service employees paid 9 of the 12 women involved in Colombia sex scandal, agency says
- ‘Hey Girl, it’s Paul Ryan’ explained
- Senators want USPS to wait on closings
- What Elijah Cummings plans to tell the Secret Service
- Senators to Postal Service: Don’t close post offices until after Congress acts
- Secret Service scandal: Watchdog planning separate probe
- An interview with Leonard Boswell
- An interview with Tom Latham
- What’s going on at the top of the U.S. Capitol?
- John Boehner: President Obama picking ‘fake fights’
- Iowa’s Leonard Boswell faces a GOP challenger who is aligned with Boehner
- House approves student loan plan despite veto threat
- Secret Service imposes new rules on agents for foreign trips
- House approves student loan plan; White House vows veto over health fund depletion
- Lawmaker confirms Secret Service investigating new misconduct allegations
- Paul Ryan defends his interpretation of Catholic teachings
- John Boehner doubts Marco Rubio immigration plan could pass House this year
- Senate approves changes for the U.S. Postal Service
- Secret Service scandal: No similar recent examples of misconduct, Napolitano says
- Senate approves changes to the U.S. Postal Service
- Police investigating threats against Marco Rubio
- House to vote to prevent GSA-like spending
- House to vote on bill preventing GSA-like conferences
- Three more Secret Service employees to lose jobs
- Senate begins debate on Postal Service; approves plan capping agency spending
- Sen. Mark Kirk’s first photo released since his stroke
- John Boehner keeps talking
- Senate to vote on array of Postal Service overhaul proposals
- Capitol Police Chief Phillip D. Morse to retire
- Lieberman calls for broader GSA probe into spending, hearings
- Postal Service prompts tricky votes in the Senate
- Secret Service prostitution scandal: Lieberman calls for wider investigation
- Secret Service scandal: Lawmakers voice support for Director Mark Sullivan
- GSA scandal: Lawmakers promise more hearings
- Secret Service ousts three more in Colombia scandal
- GSA Vegas scandal prompts bills that would gut spending on federal agency conferences
- How some senators would fix the Postal Service
- House approves tax-cut plan for small businesses
- More Secret Service dismissals likely, lawmakers say
- Obama plans to renominate GOP member of NRC, averting fight with Senate Republicans
- House approves small-business tax cut plan
- Lawmakers request full details of Secret Service scandal by May 1
- In wake of GSA scandal, Harry Reid and Dean Heller agree on something: Las Vegas rocks
- Boehner: Obama ‘checked out’ last Labor Day
- Senate GOP joining legal action against Obama recess appointments
- Inquiry points to wider Secret Service scandal involving as many as 21 women
- Senate begins debating future of U.S. Postal Service
- Sen. Daniel Akaka headed back to Washington after bout with dehydration
- GSA inspector general is investigating possible bribes, kickbacks
- GSA demands that three officials repay some conference expenses
- GSA scandal: Jeff Neely declines to testify at start of first House hearing
- USDA buildings closed Monday due to small fire
- What do Warren Buffett, Lena Horne and Mark Twain have in common?
- Rep. Edolphus Towns, a New York Democrat, won’t seek reelection
- Obama calls for thorough inquiry in Secret Service prostitution scandal
- Secret Service scandal could be bigger, lawmaker says
- 11 Secret Service agents put on leave amid prostitution inquiry
- An interview with Steve King
- An interview with Christie Vilsack
- Democrats hope to dethrone Rep. Steve King in Iowa
- Dennis Kucinich ‘looking at all my options’ in Washington state
- Sen. Ron Johnson denies a staff shakeup
- GAO warns Congress again about Postal Service
- GOP leaders ask White House to avoid ‘midnight regulations’ this fall
- Paul Ryan on VP: ‘It’s never come up’
- Four hearings in Congress next week on GSA scandal
- Dick Lugar: Too mild to be memorable?
- GSA manager wanted ‘over the top’ Vegas conference
- Mitch McConnell to Obama: ‘Back off’ the Supreme Court
- Steve King: Marco Rubio ‘speaks to my heart’
- Paul Ryan says he ‘misspoke’ on military budget
- Gen. Martin Dempsey knocks Paul Ryan’s budget comments
- What happened to postal reform?
- Obama: Americans getting hit twice over gas prices — at pump and with tax subsidies
- Countdown to passage of a highway bill
- Who does Mitch McConnell want to win the Louisville-Kentucky game?
- Bobby Rush: ‘Sometimes decorum has to take a back seat’
- ‘Where are the women?’ dispute settled. Kind of.
- Ben Bernanke: Congress needs ‘political courage’
- Democrats attack GOP Rep. Paul Ryan on his home turf
- House passes JOBS Act, sends bill to Obama
- ‘Where are the women’ dispute settled. Kind of.
- Trayvon Martin’s parents coming to Capitol Hill
- Senate set to fight over oil company tax cuts
- Short-term highway funding bill scrapped
- Former Rep. William Jefferson’s conviction upheld by federal court
- How do you prepare for Supreme Court oral arguments? (And other stories we’re reading)
- Senate turns attention to the Postal Service
- Former Vice President Cheney has heart transplant
- Louisiana votes in GOP primary Saturday
- Rep. Allen West on Trayvon Martin: ‘This is an outrage’
- House ethics panel launches new probes of Reps. Shelley Berkley, Vern Buchanan
- Postal Service closing plans panned by lawmakers
- NFL bounties earn Senate scrutiny
- Senate passes JOBS Act, sends it back to the House
- Bill stripping parts of health-care law passes House
- Study: Ron Paul’s House seat enriches his family
- Senate should quickly confirm nominees, panel says
- Barbara Mikulski honored as longest-serving woman in Congress
- House Republicans launch ‘Citizen Cosponsor’
- Which lawmaker has the best Facebook page? (and other stories I’m reading)
- How much do Paul Ryan’s videos cost?
- Vote reauthorizing Export-Import Bank fails
- Rep. Walter Jones calls China ‘Uncle Chang’
- What happened to the House highway bill?
- Democrats: Ryan budget ‘a breach of faith’, hurts women
- Looking for your lawmaker? There’s an app for that.
- Illinois House primaries critical to balance of power (And other stories I read this morning)
- Republican budget proposal to be unveiled
- House Republicans to propose dramatic changes to tax code
- Democrats: The more Americans learn, the more they love health-care reform
- GOP turns attention to health-care law
- Paul Ryan’s dramatic budget preview
- Female senators push to reauthorize Violence Against Women Act
- Postal union blasts closings plan in new ads
- Agencies poorly track FOIA requests, report says
- Senate GOP to IRS: Keep politics out of Super PAC probe
- Senate reaches deal on judicial nominees
- Senate reaches deal on federal judicial nominations
- Senate passes highway bill, but House prospects uncertain
- Can Congress be fixed? Some lawmakers think so
- Senate rejects pay freeze extension
- Senate stops voting to attend Susan Collins engagement party
- Senate rejects plan to extend federal pay freeze
- Lindsey Graham blasts Newt Gingrich on Afghanistan
- Sunshine Week renews debate on Obama and FOIA
- Congress remains deeply unpopular, poll finds
- Senate set for fight on federal judges
- Senate Democrats ask IRS for greater scrutiny of Super PACs
- Democrats target House GOP ethics concerns
- What is Congress doing this week? (Afghanistan, highway bill, judicial nominations and ‘No Budget, No Pay.’)
- Big money weekend for Senate’s Democratic women
- Todd Park to serve as new federal chief technology officer
- Barney Frank sent to the congressional penalty box
- Dennis Kucinich: Another election ‘very unlikely’
- Senate rejects expediting Keystone pipeline
- House passes jobs bill with wide bipartisan margins
- Senate rejects expediting Keystone pipeline
- House passes jobs legislation
- Senators introduce excess federal buildings bill
- Senate reaches deal on highway bill
- Postal Service to suspend closures during election season
- Super Tuesday results bring no clarity to Capitol Hill
- Dennis Kucinich’s most memorable moments
- Senate highway bill fails test vote; deal could come later Tuesday
- Rep. Donald Payne (D-N.J) dies at age 77
- FEMA prepares to provide tornado relief
- This week on Capitol Hill: Highway funding, jobs bills, budget testimony and maybe more endorsements?
- Sticking up for George Washington (and his birthday)
- House Republicans unveil new jobs package
- House Parliamentarian set to retire
- GAO: Overlapping government programs cost billions
- Steny Hoyer: Get debt deal done before the elections
- Federal contracting spending holds steady
- Postal regulator traveling again despite Senate probe
- In op-ed, federal worker says, ‘I’m fed up’
- Some news of our own
- Cost-cutting plan targets hundreds of mail processing facilities
- Suspicious letters sent to lawmakers and media outlets prompt investigation
- Suspicious mail sent to at least 5 congressional offices
- How safe is the mail?
- U.S. Postal Service plans to close, consolidate 223 processing centers
- Darrell Issa assesses his first year as chairman
- Rep. Issa has been busy as oversight panel chairman
- Harry Reid: Obama should issue recess appointments if Senate confirmation logjam persists
- How Benjamin Cardin helped secure the federal pension deal
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