Matt Fuller
Bio:
Matt Fuller covers House leadership for Roll Call. He previously covered defense, veterans affairs, energy and agriculture for CQ, as well as the House and Senate floor. He came to CQ Roll Call as a legislative information researcher in August 2010 and was previously an intern for Roll Call's GalleryWatch team.
Hailing from the seacoast area of New Hampshire, Matt graduated from Saint Anselm College in 2010. During his college days, he founded a joke newspaper and served as a member of student government.
Stories by Matt Fuller:
July 31, 2013
Updated 2:30 p.m. | As Heritage Action for America pushes lawmakers to kill any bill that funds Obamacare, the conservative group is running into a question it refuses to answer: If the government shuts down, what next?
July 31, 2013
What does it take to be the speaker?
July 31, 2013
House GOP leadership had some trouble with votes Wednesday.
July 31, 2013
Speaker John A. Boehner has a scheme to end Obamacare — and it doesn’t yet involve a government shutdown.
July 30, 2013
Updated 10:56 a.m. | Even before President Barack Obama makes his new “grand bargain” offer official in a speech Tuesday, Republican leaders insisted it was neither grand, nor a bargain.
July 29, 2013
The effort by conservatives in the House and Senate to threaten a government shutdown over Obamacare could force Speaker John A. Boehner into the arms of House Democrats.
July 26, 2013
GOP Rep. Scott Rigell is asking leadership to call off the August break so the House can work on spending bills.
July 26, 2013
House Republicans want to leave for the August recess on a high note, so they’re planning to spend next week tackling their favorite targets: bureaucracy and regulations.
July 25, 2013
Steve King insisted again Thursday that undocumented immigrant children are often drug mules who carry illegal substances across the border from Mexico, but this time he did it on the House floor.
July 24, 2013
Updated 8:17 p.m. | The White House and Republican and Democratic leadership marshaled their forces Wednesday to narrowly defeat an attempt by Rep. Justin Amash, R-Mich., to defund the National Security Agency’s blanket collection of telephone records, but not before a heated floor debate pitting civil liberties against national security.
July 24, 2013
Competing whip operations are heating up as the House prepares to vote on a National Security Agency amendment that has resulted in what one aide described as a “Michigan dog fight.”
July 23, 2013
The National Security Agency held four hours worth of “top secret” briefings Tuesday to lobby members of the House to continue funding its secret surveillance program.
July 23, 2013
Visions of the Republican Party literally crossed paths in the Capitol Rotunda on Tuesday evening.
July 23, 2013
Updated 11:07 p.m. | Rep. Steve King is defending his comments that children who were brought to the U.S. illegally don’t deserve “amnesty” because they’re not “all valedictorians” despite a firestorm of criticism from Republican leaders and Democrats.
July 23, 2013
Speaker John A. Boehner signaled again Tuesday that President Barack Obama is going to have to talk with him about spending cuts if the White House wants to raise the debt ceiling once more.
July 23, 2013
The House Republican Conference has released its August planning kit, and if you, as a House GOP lawmaker, weren’t sure how to write an op-ed for your local paper, the conference has written one for you!
July 22, 2013
House GOP leadership on Monday gave in to the demands of a small band of libertarian-minded members, allowing them to offer controversial amendments on the National Security Agency, Egypt and Syria.
July 22, 2013
When House Republicans retreat to their districts for the August recess, they will each be armed with a detailed guide — an exceptionally detailed guide — on how to assure their already convinced constituents that Washington is broken.
July 19, 2013
House GOP leaders are scrambling to quell a quiet libertarian rebellion that threatens to block consideration of the Defense appropriations bill.
July 18, 2013
Speaker John A. Boehner doesn’t want to hear that Congress has been “historically unproductive.”
July 18, 2013
Speaker John A. Boehner is optimistic the House will tackle immigration before lawmakers tackle the looming debt ceiling, and he endorsed relief for immigrants brought to the United States illegally by their parents.
July 17, 2013
House Judiciary Chairman Robert W. Goodlatte won’t comment on a request from Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez to have a hearing on the Trayvon Martin case. In fact, Goodlatte says he hasn’t even read the Illinois Democrat’s letter yet.
July 17, 2013
Speaker John A. Boehner thinks Sen. Lindsey Graham was “dead wrong” saying that the United States should boycott the Olympics if Russia grants asylum to Edward Snowden.
July 16, 2013
Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez wants a congressional hearing on how George Zimmerman could go free after shooting and killing Trayvon Martin.
July 16, 2013
The House moved its farm bill one step closer to conference with the Senate Tuesday, when it made a procedural move that formally sent the legislation without food stamp provisions over to the Senate.
