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Susan Ferrechio

Chief Congressional Correspondent

Susan Ferrechio is the Washington Examiner's chief Congressional correspondent. She has previously reported for Congressional Quarterly and The Miami Herald.


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  • RNC chairman calls for Eric Holder's resignation

    By Susan Ferrechio | 05/14/13 12:10 PM

    RNC Chairman Reince Priebus believes Attorney General Eric Holder should resign for tapping the phones of the Associated Press, calling the move a violation of the First Amendment. Here is his statement: “Freedom of the press is an essential right in a free society. The First Amendment...

  • Congress to probe IRS targeting of conservative groups

    By Susan Ferrechio | 05/13/13 08:25 PM

    Irate lawmakers vowed Monday to hold congressional hearings on the Internal Revenue Service after the tax agency admitted that it closely scrutinized the tax-exempt status of conservative groups that opposed President Obama and other Democrats. The Republican-run House Ways and Means Committee...

  • Former IRS Chief Everson 'saddened' by agency bias charges

    By Susan Ferrechio | 05/13/13 05:50 PM

    Former IRS Commissioner Mark W. Everson tells the Washington Examiner he is “saddened” about the allegations that the agency targeted conservative political groups for extra scrutiny. Everson who served under President George W. Bush from 2003 until 2007, said under his watch, he made a...

  • Obama contradicted himself on Benghazi in Monday presser, say GOP lawmakers

    By Susan Ferrechio | 05/13/13 03:00 PM

    Three Republican senators are challenging President Obama’s claim made during a press conference Monday that he had acknowledged the fatal attacks on the U.S. special mission in Benghazi were caused by terrorists. On Monday, Obama, when asked about the growing Benghazi controversy during a...

  • Immigration reform backers struggling to build support in Senate

    By Susan Ferrechio | 05/10/13 06:55 PM

    The Senate will spend this week reshaping an immigration-reform bill in hopes of building bipartisan support for the measure. But that detailed scrutiny of the measure is scaring off the very lawmakers that its authors hoped to win over. By the time the Senate Judiciary Committee votes on the...

  • Boston officials say FBI failed to warn them about bombers

    By Susan Ferrechio | 05/09/13 05:35 PM

    Boston authorities could have prevented last month's deadly Boston Marathon bombings if federal law enforcement agencies had adequately shared information and followed through on warnings about accused bombers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, witnesses told Congress Thursday. "I believe that...

  • Boehner demands Benghazi emails from White House

    By Susan Ferrechio | 05/09/13 10:55 AM

    House Speaker John Boehner is demanding that the White House release a series of unclassified emails related to the Sept. 11 fatal terrorist attacks on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya. Boehner is seeking emails Republican lawmakers say were sent the day after the attack from a...

  • John Boehner, Mitch McConnell won%u2019t appoint members to Medicare savings panel

    By Susan Ferrechio | 05/09/13 10:05 AM

    House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, both Republicans, sent a letter to President Obama on Thursday announcing that they will not appoint anyone to the Independent Payment Advisory Board, known as IPAB. The 15-member panel is tasked with reducing the cost of...

  • Witnesses: Obama administration blocked military protection for Benghazi mission

    By Susan Ferrechio | 05/08/13 05:50 PM

    Eyewitnesses to September's deadly terrorist attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya told a congressional committee Wednesday that State Department officials had blocked efforts to aid Americans under fire and later tried to conceal al Qaeda's involvement. Mark Thompson, acting deputy assistant...

  • Senators plan to revise, revive expansion of background checks for gun buyers

    By Susan Ferrechio | 05/07/13 06:40 PM

    Senators who support expanding criminal background checks for gun buyers said Tuesday that they intend to revive the legislation for a vote by this summer, though the measure won't be exactly the same as the one senators defeated a month ago. The Senate last month fell four votes shy of...



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