Speaker Series: Reporting from Capitol Hill

Carl Hulse is Chief Washington Correspondent of The New York Times. He is the author of On Washington, a column chronicling developments in the nation’s capital from the perspective of a longtime expert in politics and policy. Carl was previously Washington Editor for The Times, directing all facets of Washington coverage of the White House and executive branch, Congress, the courts and the Pentagon from 2011 to 2014. Carl also served as the Chief Congressional Correspondent for The Times for more than a decade. He originally joined The Times in 1986 as a Washington correspondent and later bureau chief for The New York Times Regional Newspapers.

Paul Kane is senior congressional correspondent and columnist at The Washington Post. Paul has covered Congress since 2000, when he started at Roll Call with a beat focused on the Senate leadership agenda. He started with The Washington Post in 2007, covering topics such as the congressional response to the 2008 financial crisis and the Obama-Republican fiscal wars. He now writes a regular column on Congress and its interactions with the Trump administration.

Phil Mattingly is a congressional correspondent for CNN. In that role, Phil has been one of the lead reporters contributing to CNN’s coverage of Republican attempts to repeal and replace Obamacare, the Capitol Hill spending and shutdown battles, as well as each step of the process to overhaul the U.S. tax system. He joined CNN in December 2015 as a New York-based correspondent and spent 2016 on the campaign trail covering Republican presidential candidates Chris Christie, John Kasich, and Donald Trump. Previously, Phil worked at Bloomberg Television in Washington and served as a print reporter with Bloomberg News.