Nina Heller
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Features @RollCall/@CQnow. @TheEagleOnline alum. Bay Area originally, DC currently. Tips & soup recipes: [email protected]
Washington, DC
Joined August 2016
Same newsroom, new beat: I’m now covering features and the Capitol campus beat @RollCall! Tips? Story ideas? Hill gossip? Musings on the departure of the Longworth Dunkin? I want to know it all! Add me to your press lists and let’s chat: ninaheller@cqrollcall.com!
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if I had a nickel for every time I’ve watched the washington spirit go to extra time and then win in PKs at a home playoff game at audi field I’d have two nickels which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it’s happened twice!!!
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Scoop: The Approps four corners are meeting today at 12:30 to put finishing touches on the Ag/Milcon-VA/Leg Branch minibus. More:
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It's my first week writing Morning Briefing for @cqnow @rollcall! Send Hill coffee recs, tips and add me to your press lists: kristina.karisch@cqrollcall.com
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His full quote: "There's a scenario where the staff here is going to lose their health insurance because you have to pay, monthly, the health premium. The insurance companies are saying, 'hey, we haven't gotten the premium money, and so we're going to drop that person.'"
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.@berniemoreno told reporters that congressional staff are in danger of losing health insurance because premiums aren't getting paid. Per guidance sent to House and Senate staff at the end of September, health coverage for staff continues uninterrupted during a shutdown.
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Capitol news desert: ~Half the states have nobody in the press corps watching their state delegations and asking tough questions in the hallway. It would take ~$10M/year to hire 50 top reporters, one for each state, plus editors, etc., and restore state coverage.
Rumors of my demise have been slightly exagerated. I am employed through Feb. 2, with the option to move back to North Carolina after that date. Please keep the scoops coming. #ncpol
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"We find that, once in office, political newcomers are less likely than career politicians to work across the aisle. The very outsiders many voters hope will “fix” Congress contribute to the partisan divisions that keep it from functioning."
Political inexperience in Congress has measurable effects on legislative outcomes. Our research finds that when districts elect political newcomers over career politicians, congressional dysfunction tends to increase. New explainer of our PNAS study:
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Being a congressional intern can be a starting point for a career in politics. But for students who came to DC this fall to work on Capitol Hill, those internships are on pause until the government reopens. w/ @justinjpapp1
https://t.co/MpSNUEKwBw
rollcall.com
For House interns who arrived in the fall, it’s been a strange semester, to say the least. Congressional offices are feeling it too.
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Taylor Swift's greatest easter egg yet
13: The number of times Democrats have voted *against* the clean, House-passed CR 13: The number of times Democrats voted *for* the same kind of bill when Joe Biden was president
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“A therapist might lead you to your own answer, asking why you feel the way you feel and think the way you think, and what logical conclusions can be drawn from those insights. A bubbe will simply tell you what to do. And send you home with leftovers.” https://t.co/LvLXpmfliy
washingtonpost.com
Why crowds of young professionals have been lining up to get advice — and hugs — from other people’s bubbes.
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More fall events on the Hill are getting shut down from the shutdown: In addition to Tillis' dog parade getting canceled, the Congressional Football Game is also postponed https://t.co/akYAUWkKk1
rollcall.com
At least two autumn traditions for Congress have been postponed or canceled as the government shutdown continues.
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Bipartisan Senate lunch doesn’t seem to have solved anything Collins & Peters walking to vote debating whose states’ blueberries have more antioxidants
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Nothing is preventing members from giving tours themselves! Many other members are doing it, which I wrote about this week:
rollcall.com
How much do they know about their place of work? “As a former history teacher, I love doing them, actually,” one member says.
On a normal day, I’d be welcoming South Carolina families to their nation’s Capitol, giving tours, and sharing the history of this incredible building. But for weeks, the doors have been closed. Because of the Democrat-led shutdown, families who planned these visits months in
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With staff and guide-led tours paused while the government is shut down, many members of Congress have added tour guide to their job description. And some of them are quite busy with it! Latest in @rollcall: https://t.co/4GLdNFOZEp
rollcall.com
How much do they know about their place of work? “As a former history teacher, I love doing them, actually,” one member says.
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No one talk to me.
Absolutely devastated to report that @SenThomTillis (R-NC) has cancelled the Halloween dog parade given the shutdown; putting out this graphic to commemorate what could’ve been!
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Check out the paper that won’t be in stands today — complete with spaces where purchased ads should’ve been.
The paper you weren’t supposed to see:
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