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 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 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 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
The controversy embroiling the IRS kicked up another storm of rhetoric Monday over enforcement of campaign finance laws.
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 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.
May 8, 2013
Just under the one-year mark since the Supreme Court upheld President Barack Obama’s health care law, the House is set next week to vote on a full repeal of what GOP lawmakers dub “Obamacare.”
May 8, 2013
The House chief administrative officer has announced that his operation is the latest legislative branch agency to offer buyouts to employees.
May 8, 2013
With the Senate preparing to begin formal debate on a massive bill to overhaul the nation’s immigration system, the nation’s capital is pursuing immigration legislation of its own.
May 3, 2013
Since taking control of the House in 2011, Republicans claim they have done “more with less” — expanding the efficiency of the chamber while dramatically reducing operating costs.
May 2, 2013
After his preliminary hearing on Thursday morning, James Everett Dutschke will next go before a federal grand jury on charges that he sent ricin-laced letters to elected officials, including Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss.
May 1, 2013
The numbers are in: An outside audit of the House’s finances has given the chamber a clean bill of fiscal health for 2012.
April 30, 2013
Federal authorities conceded two weeks ago that they had arrested the wrong man in connection with mailing ricin-laced letters to public officials, among them Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss.
April 29, 2013
First, it was an Elvis impersonator charged with mailing ricin-laced letters to government officials, among them Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss.
April 25, 2013
The Architect of the Capitol is used to answering to members of Congress. But these days, it also has the local community to contend with.
April 24, 2013
Even though everyone expected D.C. voters to overwhelmingly approve a referendum unlinking the local budget from congressional oversight in Tuesday’s special election, nobody seems to know what to expect next.
April 23, 2013
Six days ago, law enforcement officers told the congressional community that officials had arrested a suspect in connection with a ricin-laced letter mailed to Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss.
April 23, 2013
Hours after a suspect being held in connection with sending a ricin-laced letter to Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., was released from custody, federal prosecutors moved to dismiss the case against him entirely.
April 22, 2013
Washington, D.C., Republicans are finding themselves in unfamiliar territory: They’re being targeted for get-out-the-vote efforts in a competitive election in the nation’s capital.
April 22, 2013
Democrats are publicly patient while two familiar faces — U.S. Attorney Brendan Johnson and former Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin — consider a bid for the open South Dakota Senate seat.
April 19, 2013
With the Boston Marathon bombings fresh in mind, Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., wants to make sure the sequester does not interfere with law enforcement efforts to protect against acts of terror during summer events in the nation’s capital.
