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Government and Politics Editor

E-mail Steven at sthomma@mcclatchydc.com

Steven Thomma is the Senior White House Correspondent and the Government and Politics Editor for McClatchy Newspapers, overseeing coverage of the White House, Congress and Economics.

He's covered Washington since 1987, as a regional reporter, national political correspondent, White House correspondent and chief political correspondent for Knight Ridder, and as White House correspondent and chief political correspondent for McClatchy.

He's won the Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency from the Gerald R. Ford Foundation for his work in 2010; the Aldo Beckman Award for distinguished White House coverage from the White House Correspondents Association for his coverage of the 2000 campaign; and the National Press Club's award for best regional reporting in 1994.

He was elected to the board of the White House Correspondents Association in 2011, and elected president for the 2013-2014 term.

Before coming to Washington, he worked for the Pioneer Press in Minnesota, the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette in Indiana and City News Bureau in Chicago.

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Steven Thomma's Latest Story

Multiple controversies suddenly plague Obama

By Anita Kumar and Steven Thomma | McClatchy Washington Bureau

The honeymoon, if there ever was one, is over. Four months into his second term, President Barack Obama finds himself under siege from members of both parties and the media for a series of crises that has stalled his policy priorities and threatened to engulf the second half of his presidency. » read more

Posted on Tue, May 14, 2013

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