Emma Dumain
Bio:
Emma Dumain covers House leadership for Roll Call. From September 2011 to May 2013, she covered Roll Call's campus beat, where she wrote about the administration of the House and Senate, legislative branch appropriations, the Capitol Police and oversight of the District of Columbia, along with the myriad issues affecting Capitol Hill staffers and Congressional support agencies.
A 2007 summer intern at Roll Call, Emma joined the publication full time in fall 2011 from Congressional Quarterly. There, she was first an editorial assistant and then a reporter, covering legislation as it moved through Congress with a focus on legislative branch spending, ethics, oversight and the postal service.
Emma is a graduate of Oberlin College, where she was editor-in-chief of the Oberlin Review, the official student newspaper.
Stories by Emma Dumain:
May 23, 2013
When lawmakers head home to their districts for the Memorial Day recess next week, they’ll likely face questions from constituents about the sequester, efforts on Capitol Hill to mitigate its effects and what could happen if the arbitrary spending cuts are not re-evaluated from agency to agency.
May 23, 2013
House Republican leaders on Thursday made it clear that their chamber will proceed with an immigration overhaul on its own terms.
May 23, 2013
As pressure mounts on Capitol Hill to address the rising number of cases of sexual assault in the military, Speaker John A. Boehner, R-Ohio, suggested that he supports the House taking action through legislation.
May 22, 2013
A month after House Republican leaders were forced to pull an unpopular Obamacare revision from the House floor, bill sponsor Rep. Joe Pitts, R-Pa., said he expects to see a modified version under consideration again in “a couple of weeks.”
May 22, 2013
The conservative base is clamoring for the House to consider its first abortion-related bill of the 113th Congress, but at least one ousted GOP moderate is sounding an alarm about the political dangers for her party.
May 22, 2013
The Republican Party, long-marooned from the Latino voting bloc, has begun a concerted effort to mobilize this constituency as its own, particularly ahead of the 2014 and 2016 elections.
May 21, 2013
Speaker John A. Boehner is vowing that Oklahoma tornado victims will get relief — but he demurred on when and how the House might act on a bill, and whether his conference would support it.
May 20, 2013
House Republican leadership will soon have to decide how hard to push a controversial ban on late-term abortions sought by the party’s base in the wake of Pennsylvania abortion provider Kermit Gosnell’s three murder convictions.
May 17, 2013
It was a long week on Capitol Hill for House Democrats, as the chamber’s Republicans hammered President Barack Obama for agency misconduct under his watch, then topped things off with a House vote to repeal his 2010 health care law.
May 16, 2013
The tea party movement, after heating up to a roaring boil in the 2010 election cycle, diminished to a simmer over the past few years.
May 16, 2013
Speaker John A. Boehner, R-Ohio, said Thursday that the White House should be prepared to negotiate with House Republicans on the debt limit – despite President Barack Obama’s insistence that he wants to extend it later this summer without strings attached.
May 16, 2013
Tea party leaders banded together Thursday morning to sound a rallying cry for the first time since news broke last week that the IRS disproportionately scrutinized conservative nonprofits applying for tax-exempt status.
May 15, 2013
They talked about balancing the budget in 10 years, repealing Obamacare, slashing spending and overhauling the tax code.
May 15, 2013
The Oversight and Government Reform Committee has scheduled a hearing for next week on allegations of misconduct within the IRS, the panel’s chairman, Darrell Issa, confirmed Wednesday.
May 14, 2013
Since news broke of allegations that the IRS improperly targeted applications for conservative tax-exempt organizations, members of Congress of all stripes have been eager to go on the record condemning these revelations.
May 14, 2013
Rep. Steve King is confident that House GOP leaders will take the side of the naysayers when it comes to any overhaul of immigration laws.
May 14, 2013
Looking to up the ante on debt limit negotiations, House conservatives will push to enact spending changes included in the House-passed budget in exchange for an increase in the nation’s debt ceiling.
May 14, 2013
As the Senate Judiciary Committee continues to debate the immigration overhaul measure authored by the bipartisan “gang of eight,” a more informal and more partisan “gang of six” gathered outside the Capitol to slam what it called an “amnesty bill.”
May 13, 2013
Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. was scheduled some time ago to testify on Wednesday before the House Judiciary Committee on general issues relating to the agency he oversees.
May 13, 2013
Days after House Republican leaders promised that the chamber would investigate charges that the IRS disproportionately scrutinized applications by conservative groups, the Ways and Means Committee has scheduled a hearing for this Friday.
May 13, 2013
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s two-paragraph statement on allegations that the IRS targeted tea party organizations for extra review could have come from any concerned lawmaker Monday.
May 13, 2013
The controversy embroiling the IRS kicked up another storm of rhetoric Monday over enforcement of campaign finance laws.
May 10, 2013
House Republicans are beginning to speak out about the high-profile case against a Philadelphia abortion doctor, but leaders, committee chairmen and rank-and-file members have yet to coalesce around a single strategy to address the hot-button issue.
May 9, 2013
The high-profile trial of a Philadelphia abortion doctor charged with killing four babies and a Virginia woman has had rank-and-file House Republicans looking for legislative action, and now leadership is also starting to weigh in.
