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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House managers called for impeachment and attorneys for President Trump declared the articles of impeachment "ridiculous."
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi named seven Democratic lawmakers who will present the House's case in the Senate impeachment trial of President Trump.
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For weeks, the House speaker has refrained from sending the articles to the Senate, saying she needed details on how an impeachment trial would work. But Thursday, she indicated she would soon relent.
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The full House is expected to approve two articles of impeachment against the president. The GOP-led Senate is already making plans for what leaders hope will be a quick trial in January.
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House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff will reveal his findings in the impeachment probe, and the House Judiciary plans a hearing with experts on constitutional grounds for impeachment.
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Nine witnesses are scheduled over three days. Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the EU, faces questions about his call with President Trump about pushing for investigations in Ukraine.
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Democrats have called three career public servants to appear for the first public hearings this week in the Trump impeachment inquiry: William Taylor, George Kent and Marie Yovanovitch.
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The House passed a resolution setting the rules for public hearings. It also sets the procedures for the president and his counsel for judiciary hearings on articles of impeachment.
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The resolution, which formalizes the impeachment inquiry into President Trump, outlines rules and procedures for the inquiry moving forward.
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Marie Yovanovitch was recalled from her post in May after criticism from some Republicans, including the president's eldest son, that she was not supportive of the administration's policies.
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New York Republican Rep. Chris Collins, the first GOP lawmaker to endorse President Trump in the 2016 election, submitted his resignation letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office.
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Lawmakers are back on Capitol Hill on Monday after an extended summer recess. Debates on gun control, prescription drugs and trade are expected, but bipartisan cooperation on those are elusive.