Deirdre Walsh
Deirdre Walsh is the congress editor for NPR's Washington Desk.
Based in Washington, DC, Walsh manages a team of reporters covering Capitol Hill and political campaigns.
Before joining NPR in 2018, Walsh worked as a senior congressional producer at CNN. In her nearly 18-year career there, she was an off-air reporter and a key contributor to the network's newsgathering efforts, filing stories for CNN.com and producing pieces that aired on domestic and international networks. Prior to covering Capitol Hill, Walsh served as a producer for Judy Woodruff's Inside Politics.
Walsh was elected in August 2018 as the president of the Board of Directors for the Washington Press Club Foundation, a non-profit focused on promoting diversity in print and broadcast media. Walsh has won several awards for enterprise and election reporting, including the Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for Distinguished Reporting of Congress by the National Press Association, which she won in February 2013 along with CNN's Chief Congressional Correspondent Dana Bash. Walsh was also awarded the Joan Barone Award for excellence in Washington-based Congressional or Political Reporting in June 2013.
Walsh received a B.A. in political science and communications from Boston College.
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McConnell defends the Supreme Court's chance of issuing rulings in conflict with a majority of Americans' views on abortion rights — telling NPR it's a feature of the system.
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Senate's top Republican says the Supreme Court's role is to protect basic rights, even when majorities are in favor of something else. "That happens all the time."
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A redrawn Phoenix-area district represented by Rep. Greg Stanton is ground zero for the kind of race Democrats need to win in order to keep control of the House.
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Calls Trump made to Republican lawmakers during the insurrection have been revealed publicly, underscoring questions about why no activity was recorded during the most crucial hours of that day.
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The House panel probing the Capitol riot holds its first public meeting since December to consider referring two senior Trump White House officials to the Justice Department for criminal contempt.
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Some of the most contentious moments in this week's Supreme Court confirmation hearings came during questions from Republican senators believed to be harboring ambitions to run for president.
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Lawmakers are mostly supportive after Ukrainian President Zelenskyy's address to a joint session of Congress during which he pressed the U.S. for more sanctions and weapons.
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House Democrats are in Philadelphia on a retreat. We'll look at how lawmakers up for re-election are navigating their relationship with an unpopular president, who is also head of their party.
