Brian Naylor
NPR News' Brian Naylor is a correspondent on the Washington Desk. In this role, he covers politics and federal agencies.
With more than 30 years of experience at NPR, Naylor has served as National Desk correspondent, White House correspondent, congressional correspondent, foreign correspondent, and newscaster during All Things Considered. He has filled in as host on many NPR programs, including Morning Edition, Weekend Edition, and Talk of the Nation.
During his NPR career, Naylor has covered many major world events, including political conventions, the Olympics, the White House, Congress, and the mid-Atlantic region. Naylor reported from Tokyo in the aftermath of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, from New Orleans following the BP oil spill, and from West Virginia after the deadly explosion at the Upper Big Branch coal mine.
While covering the U.S. Congress in the mid-1990s, Naylor's reporting contributed to NPR's 1996 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Journalism Award for political reporting.
Before coming to NPR in 1982, Naylor worked at NPR Member Station WOSU in Columbus, Ohio, and at a commercial radio station in Maine.
He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Maine.
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Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are hammering out language that will affect immigration and national security policy. One provision of a spending bill for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan will call for stricter documentation in applying for a driver's license.
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The House and Senate have been unable to reconcile differences over a supplemental spending bill, largely because of disagreements over a House-sponsored amendment aimed at curbing illegal immigration. The debate within the Republican Party is a prelude to a broader discussion still to come.
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The Senate Finance Committee begins to examine ways to fix Social Security's long-term financing problems as union members protest and Democratic leaders rail against President Bush's privatization proposal.
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Vermont Sen. Jim Jeffords announces he won't seek another term, citing his and his wife's health problems. Jeffords shocked his Republican colleagues in 2001 when he left the party to become an independent, briefly swinging control of the Senate to Democrats.
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Rep. Henry Hyde (R-IL) announces that after 32 years in Congress, he will not seek re-election next year. The 81-year-old Hyde, who is in poor health, is known for his opposition to abortion and for leading impeachment efforts against President Bill Clinton.
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Big-league baseball returns to Washington, D.C., with a bang after a 34-years absence. The Washington Nationals defeated the Arizona Diamondbacks 5-3 in the team's home opener Thursday night before a sellout crowd at a refurbished Robert F. Kennedy Stadium.
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The House of Representatives approves an overhaul of the nation's bankruptcy laws, voting 302 to 126 in favor of a bill that will make it more difficult for people to erase debts by declaring bankruptcy. The Senate passed the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act last month.
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The presiding judge in the case of a brain-damaged woman in Florida rules that the feeding tube keeping Terri Schiavo alive can be removed, despite efforts by congressional Republicans to delay the removal.
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As the tug-of-war continues over the fate of Terri Schiavo, the brain-damaged Florida woman, several Republican lawmakers have inserted themselves into the fray. A House committee issued subpoenas and a Senate panel sought to have her appear as a witness for a hearing in a bid to stave off removal of the feeding tube.
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A narrow Senate vote on a budget resolution makes the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge potentially vulnerable to oil drilling. The measure could be rescinded later in the budget process, but Wednesday's 51-49 vote is a defeat for those who have sought to protect the Alaskan preserve from oil exploration.