Anna Palmer
Bio:
Anna Palmer covers House leadership as a staff writer for Roll Call. She joined Roll Call in 2007 after spending nearly three years at the weekly newspaper Legal Times. At Legal Times, she covered the intersection of money and politics for the legal and lobbying industry, first as a staff writer and later as an editor.
Prior to that, Anna covered the lobbying business as a reporter for the industry newsletter Influence.
A native of North Dakota, Anna is a graduate of St. Olaf College, where she was executive editor of the weekly campus newspaper, the Manitou Messenger.
Palmer no longer works for Roll Call.
Stories by Anna Palmer:
Feb. 3, 2011
Republican pollster David Winston predicted Thursday that Republicans would not shut down the government this spring.
Feb. 2, 2011
House Democrats on the Oversight and Government Reform Committee sent a letter to Chairman Darrell Issa voicing their concerns about his examination of changes to Freedom of Information Act procedures and to evaluate federal agencies’ compliance with the law.
Feb. 2, 2011
House Democrats are returning to yet another tactic they employed the last time they were in the minority: holding mock hearings to draw attention to their positions.
Feb. 1, 2011
Newly minted Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa and ranking member Elijah Cummings are having a hard time hiding their antagonism toward one another.
Jan. 31, 2011
House GOP leaders may not have intended on pushing a social issues agenda, but that isn’t stopping rank-and-file Members from looking for opportunities to advance measures dealing with red-meat subjects such as English as the national language, abortion funding and the practice of allowing “anchor babies” citizenship.
Jan. 31, 2011
Speaker John Boehner on Monday announced he was retooling his political operation to better coordinate with the National Republican Congressional Committee and Republican National Committee to try to expand House Republicans’ majority.
Jan. 31, 2011
House Oversight and Government Reform ranking member Elijah Cummings moved Monday to circumvent Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) in a fight over access to the chairman’s regulatory research.
Jan. 26, 2011
All the recent talk of bipartisanship on Capitol Hill hasn’t thawed the chilly relationship between House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).
Jan. 26, 2011
Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) does not appear concerned about charges of ethics impropriety against freshman Rep. David Rivera (R-Fla.).
Jan. 25, 2011
Republicans and Democrats on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee continued their public disagreement over how the panel should operate with ranking member Elijah Cummings leading all of the Democrats present in voting against adoption of the chairman’s proposed committee rules Tuesday.
Jan. 25, 2011
House advocates of comprehensive immigration reform were surprised and encouraged by President Barack Obama’s call in his State of the Union address for Congress to tackle the issue.
Jan. 25, 2011
Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) are facing more pressure than ever to unify their Conferences against Congressional Democrats and the White House on fiscal responsibility and spending priorities.
Jan. 24, 2011
The top Republican and Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee sent dueling letters to each other Monday over how the panel will investigate the Obama administration.
Jan. 21, 2011
Liberals still dominate the House Democratic Caucus, but that isn’t stopping the members of the moderate New Democrat Coalition from trying to expand their reach.
Jan. 21, 2011
Rep. Joe Crowley is seeking another term to lead the New Democrat Coalition. The New York lawmaker sent a letter Thursday asking for his fellow coalition members’ support.
Jan. 20, 2011
More Ohio voters find Speaker John Boehner’s tendency to cry in public a strength rather than a weakness, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday.
Jan. 20, 2011
Top House Republicans laid out an aggressive schedule of hearings and investigations Thursday to propel their effort to replace President Barack Obama’s signature health care law.
Jan. 20, 2011
A day after House Republicans passed a bill repealing President Barack Obama’s health care law, Members moved to introduce legislation to make it illegal to use taxpayer funding for abortions.
Jan. 14, 2011
As expected, House Republicans have officially decided to get back to legislative business next week. Majority Leader Eric Cantor (Va.) has slated to begin consideration of the health care repeal bill Tuesday with a final vote Wednesday.
Jan. 14, 2011
Two former Members and a former senior adviser to Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) have been named resident fellows at Harvard University’s Institute of Politics.
Jan. 13, 2011
House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) joined Sen. Mark Udall (D-Colo.) on Thursday in calling for an end to partisan seating during the president’s State of the Union address.
Jan. 12, 2011
A Republican from Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’ home state of Arizona suggested Wednesday that the shooting rampage that injured Giffords and killed or wounded 19 others could have been stopped sooner had there been more armed people at the scene.
Jan. 12, 2011
This was not the first week on the job that Speaker John Boehner envisioned. Instead of playing the role of a partisan, Boehner found himself practicing the art of a statesman.
Jan. 12, 2011
Rep. John Dingell, dean of the House, wants to investigate whether gun control laws targeting mentally unstable individuals are working in the wake of the Tucson shootings.
Jan. 11, 2011
Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) announced in New York on Tuesday that he wants to ban people from being able to carry a gun within 1,000 feet of Members of Congress and other high-ranking federal officials.
