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:
Dec. 19, 2012
In a rare public meeting that lasted less than five minutes, the House Ethics Committee approved a package of revised rules Wednesday designed to help streamline future investigations.
Dec. 19, 2012
Four years ago, unprecedented crowds converged on the National Mall for President Barack Obama’s historic inauguration. To say it was a logistical challenge for law enforcement and ceremony organizers would be an understatement.
Dec. 18, 2012
In 2009, after outcry from activists and neighbors and following instructions from congressional leadership, the Architect of the Capitol pledged to stop burning coal at the Capitol Power Plant unless absolutely necessary.
Dec. 17, 2012
Capitol Hill has a new chief of police.
Dec. 17, 2012
With conferees looking to wrap up a final fiscal 2013 defense authorization bill this week, Capitol Hill’s non-voting House delegates are fighting for the inclusion of language that would require their flags to be flown on military bases.
Dec. 16, 2012
During the eight years she was Michigan’s secretary of state, Republican Rep. Candice S. Miller helped craft election policy that became the model elsewhere after the 2000 presidential race’s Florida recount debacle.
Dec. 13, 2012
Nearly three months after the Congressional Research Service removed from circulation a report that Republicans claimed was biased and methodologically flawed, the agency Thursday released an updated version that reached the same conclusion: There is no correlation between top tax rates and economic growth.
Dec. 13, 2012
Inauguration Day is a little more than a month away. Architect of the Capitol crews are completing the platform for the swearing-in ceremony, multiple law enforcement agencies are coordinating security parameters and someone somewhere is deciding what will be served at lunch.
Dec. 13, 2012
With members of Congress no closer to reaching a deal to avert automatic spending cuts next year, the House Administration Committee warned lawmakers on Thursday to get ready.
Dec. 11, 2012
Rep. Dan Lungren has a framed photograph on the windowsill of the office he keeps as chairman of the House Administration Committee, located in Room 1313 of the Longworth Building. It shows him as a much younger man, seated at a desk in front of a window, flanked on either side by beaming parents.
Dec. 11, 2012
Every four years, the Architect of the Capitol builds a platform, from scratch, that accommodates 1,600 very important people on Inauguration Day. For the citizens stretching out down the National Mall, it will appear perfectly integrated into the structure of the Capitol façade. It will be decked out in banners and flags. The bleachers and risers might even be obscured by the patchwork of onlookers’ winter coats, hats and scarves.
Dec. 7, 2012
Congress’ approval rating is perilously close to the margin of error for none at all, according to a new survey by Indiana University’s Center on Congress.
Dec. 6, 2012
It’s looking likely Washington, D.C., residents will have a chance to vote early next year on whether to amend the city charter by unlinking the local budget from the congressional appropriations process, but the city’s key congressional advocates worry the effort will only backfire.
Dec. 6, 2012
With a little more than a month until the 57th presidential inauguration, the White House has officially launched its counterpart to the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies.
Dec. 5, 2012
From solidifying its drug policy to cracking down on office furniture thefts, the Architect of the Capitol has some work to do, according to the agency’s inspector general.
Dec. 4, 2012
As Congress explores how to overhaul immigration policy, its own architect of the Capitol is struggling with how to enforce current rules for using the E-Verify system to confirm worker eligibility within the legislative branch.
Dec. 3, 2012
The Capitol Police Labor Committee is circulating a survey to the nearly 380 officers of the Capitol Division, the results of which could determine whether it pursues a formal “no confidence” vote against department management.
Nov. 30, 2012
California Democrat Julia Brownley did a small jig on her way up to the dais of the House Appropriations Committee hearing room.
Nov. 29, 2012
Capitol Hill’s six non-voting House delegates for the five U.S. territories and the District of Columbia want their flags flown during military ceremonies in all branches of the armed forces, along with the flags of the 50 states.
Nov. 29, 2012
Sen. Charles E. Schumer wants the House to sign off on $61 million to continue restoration of the aging Capitol Dome, which Senate appropriators endorsed earlier this year in a split from their counterparts in the other chamber.
Nov. 28, 2012
Thomas L. Hungerford, a seven-year veteran analyst with the fiercely nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, has written countless reports for members of Congress about the economic effects of various tax policy proposals.
Nov. 27, 2012
Democrats still want to know why the Congressional Research Service withdrew a report that found no correlation between top tax rates and economic growth. Their suspicion that it might have been because of Republican political pressure is being piqued by internal correspondence between CRS officials and senior GOP aides.
Nov. 26, 2012
Want to solve congressional inaction on Capitol Hill? Maybe lawmakers should work five days a week like most Americans.
Nov. 22, 2012
Kim C. Dine was tapped in 2002 to lead a city police department plagued by low staff morale, virulent union criticism and generally poor communication.
Nov. 19, 2012
Interested parties, take note: Rep.-elect Mark Takano, who’s coming to Congress in January, has two weaknesses.
