COX Newspapers Washington Bureau

GAO Employees to Vote on Union Organizing
Employees of Congress' watchdog agency, including those working at a branch in Atlanta, will decide late Wednesday whether or not they want union representation for the first time in their agency's 86-year history.

Voinovich Joins Lugar in Calling for U.S. Troops to Return from Iraq
Ohio Sen. George Voinovich's decision to become the second Republican senator to call for the withdrawal of troops from Iraq in as many days may make it easier for other GOP senators to announce their reservations about the war.

Portman Leaves amid Fanfare over Job at OMB
White House budget director Rob Portman is going home to Ohio – this time for more than a weekend visit.

For Former House Member Hall, A Journey To End Hunger
On the day 13 years ago when then-U.S. Rep. Tony Hall boarded a flight from Washington, D.C. to his hometown of Dayton for Congress' annual Easter/Passover work period, he stewed with anxiety.

 

Jessica Wehrman
National correspondent
jwehrman@coxnews.com

Jessica Wehrman

Jessica Wehrman joined the Dayton Daily News as Washington correspondent in late March 2005. Before that, she spent seven years at Scripps Howard News Service, where she served as Washington correspondent for papers including the Evansville Courier-Press, the Corpus Christi Caller-Times, the Wichita Falls Times Record News, the San Angelo Standard Times, the Abilene Reporter-News and the Albuquerque Tribune. She also served as national education and general assignment reporter for Scripps Howard News Service.

Before she took on a full-time journalism gig, Jessica spent a year interning at newspapers and publications in Tampa, Fla., Washington, D.C. and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Jessica is a native of Urbana, Ohio, and met her husband when both were reporters at the Springfield News-Sun, another Cox property. They have a daughter, Madeline.


Cox Newspapers
Washington Bureau

400 North Capitol St., N.W., Suite 750
Washington, D.C. 20001-1536
Phone: 202-331-0900

Reporter: Jessica Wehrman