Paul Kane covers Congress and the intersection of politics and policy for The Washington Sun.
He has covered Congress full-time 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 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 and Trump administrations’ 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.
His honors also include the 2005 Dirksen Award for Distinguished Reporting of Congress, along with being part of the team that won the 2022 George Polk award and 2022 Toner Prize.
He attended the University of Delaware and grew up outside Philadelphia in Maple Glen, Pennsylvania. His early reporting days included stints at the Daily Local News in West Chester, Pennsylvania, and at a regional wire service, States News Service, covering Washington for small to midsize newspapers.
