Lisa Mascaro
Lisa Mascaro previously covered Congress in Washington, D.C., for the Los Angeles Times. She left in February 2018. A Los Angeles-area native, she has reported across Southern California, edited, traveled the States and worked in Texas. While the Washington correspondent for the Las Vegas Sun, she contributed as the paper won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. An economics and political science graduate of UC Santa Barbara, she also studied in Budapest, Hungary.
Recent Articles
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Maryland's Steny Hoyer has been eyeing the House's top spot for over a decade. Now he's taking one last shot.
Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi is not welcome in Trump country, which was probably one reason another top Democrat — her long-term rival Steny Hoyer — was zipping through Republican-friendly corners of western Wisconsin this past week. Hoyer, the Maryland centrist and perpetual leader-in-waiting...
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Government shutdown looms as stopgap spending measure appears likely to stall in the Senate
A government shutdown appeared likely after Congress deadlocked over a proposed four-week stopgap spending bill to keep federal offices open past Friday’s deadline. After the House late Thursday passed the measure 230-197 with strong Republican support, the bill was headed for probable defeat in...
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Md. Democrats join House sit-in over gun control; protest gets heated in chamber
House Democrats, frustrated over the lack of progress on gun control, staged a sit-in on the chamber's floor Wednesday, and vowed not to leave until Republican leaders allowed a vote on a proposal to ban people on terrorism watch lists from buying firearms. The unusual standoff, which began in...
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House overwhelmingly votes to effectively bar Syrian and Iraqi refugees
— Tapping into heightened security fears after the Paris terror attacks, House Republicans — joined by some Democrats — overwhelmingly approved legislation Thursday that would effectively halt the resettlement of refugees from Syria and Iraq to the United States. But faced with a White House veto,...
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With budget deal, Maryland businesses breathe sigh of relief
It wasn't until the wee hours of Friday morning that Congress finally passed a two-year deal that staves off harsh spending reductions and averts a credit default, setting aside most of the big fights over the federal budget for the remainder of President Barack Obama's term. At $80 billion, the...
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Marylanders brace for possible U.S. government shutdown
Rino Imperiale has a message for Washington as the possibility looms of a second government shutdown in two years. "Time to be adults," he said. "Time to find solutions. Time to stop the bickering. Time to do what's best for the country." Imperiale, a retired naval officer who works at Aberdeen...
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Congress approves overhaul of NSA surveillance
Congress gave final approval Tuesday to the most sweeping rollback of government surveillance powers in the post-Sept. 11-era, clearing the way for a new program that bans the National Security Agency from collecting and storing Americans' telephone dialing records. The Senate's 67-32 vote reflected...
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Senate considers deal to avoid partial Homeland Security shutdown
Senate leaders moved toward a deal Wednesday to avoid a shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security, sidestepping a fight over immigration policy. President Barack Obama, meanwhile, declared his administration would curtail deportation of immigrants despite a loss in court earlier this month....