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Katy Stech Ferek
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Katy Stech Ferek
@KatyStech
Covering Congress for @WSJ. With past policy smarts on environment/climate, national security, trade and financial hardship. Minnesotan, mil spouse, mom.
A month into Florida’s six-week abortion ban, Republican Rep. Kat Cammack went to the ER with a deadly ectopic pregnancy and struggled to get prompt care. She blames the left. My latest exclusive for @WSJ:- Dianne Feinstein’s last Senate vote was cast yesterday morning at 11:45 on a bill aimed at preventing a government shutdown. She missed two later votes.
- New adventure for me: I’m covering Congress for @WSJ! Honored to join the paper’s brilliant Hill reporting team, bringing along my policy background on climate, trade and bankruptcy. Here goes nothing!
- The @WSJ’s D.C. bureau lost incredibly talented people today. Editors with decades of experience filing stories around the world. Reporters who grew up alongside me covering this town. My friends, my mentors — gone. To say I’m heartbroken is … just. Hire them. Please.
- American Sniper may be a box office hit, but Chris Kyle's Texas security firm is shutting down on.wsj.com/1yNI26A
- Bankruptcy lawyers to Obama on his pledge to see whether student loans should be cancelled in bankruptcy: "Finally!" on.wsj.com/1ETey9u
- Fresh bill would stop bankruptcy trustees from suing universities, college kids over tuition: on.wsj.com/1PgYIN7
- Now seems like a good time to remind everyone that some local police departments that had been ordered by the courts to pay victims of alleged brutality and excessive force later found a way to reduce those payments. How? Municipal bankruptcy.
- The White House might make it easier to ditch student loans in bankruptcy. How hard is it now? on.wsj.com/1MrNqio
- BREAKING: The SkyMall catalog has filed for bankruptcy. Details to come.
- Republicans control the House by the tiniest of margins, only 217-212. Meet the GOP's daredevils -- a group that can't stop jumping out of airplanes and participating in extreme sports.
