Paul Kane has covered Congress since 2000 when he started at Roll Call with a beat focused on the Senate. He joined The Washington Post in 2007, covering the 2008 financial crisis and the Obama-Republican fiscal wars. He began writing a regular column, @PKCapitol, on Congress and its interactions with the White House in 2017. His columns have covered Washington’s response to the global pandemic, the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, two impeachments and the Biden administration’s legislative agenda on Capitol Hill. In addition, Kane worked with reporting teams in 2021 that won the Pulitzer Prize’s gold medal for Public Service in reconstructing the Jan. 6 attack, and in 2023 worked with the team that won the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting for “American Icon,” a series about the rise of the AR-15 rifle and its prominence in mass shootings.

Kane briefed National Press Foundation fellows in January 2025: Navigating Washington Starts with ‘Showing Up’: In-Person Reporting Gets Results.