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Rachel Roubein

Rachel Roubein
Rachel Roubein is a Staff Correspondent at National Journal covering Congress. She previously covered health and human services at Carroll County Times in Westminster, Maryland, where she won awards for her Affordable Care Act coverage and state government, health and investigative reporting. Rachel is a graduate of the University of Maryland with a major in journalism and minors in Spanish and international development and conflict management. She hails from the South/Midwest.
Policy

Meet The US Treasure Hunters Racing To Protect Artifacts From War

Amid escalating violence in the Middle East and Africa, the Library of Congress is on a mission to secure history.

  • Rachel Roubein, National Journal
Policy

What a Homeland Security Shutdown Would Look Like

If the new Congress can't cut a deal with the president on Department of Homeland Security funding, here's what could happen come March. By Rachel Roubein

  • Rachel Roubein, National Journal
Policy

Back From Midterms, Congress To Take Up NDAA, VA Reform, Ebola and ISIS

Both current and newly elected lawmakers return to Capitol Hill to talk ISIS strategy and take the temperature of the VA's efforts to clean up its act. By Billy House and Rachel Roubein

  • Billy House and Rachel Roubein, National Journal
Threats

What Would the National Guard Actually Do at the Border?

How troops deployed to America's border with Mexico might elude the usual characterizations of 'militarizing' a region. By James Oliphant and Rachel Roubein

  • James Oliphant and Rachel Roubein, National Journal
Policy

McCain Calls for the 'Most Severe Sanctions' on Russia

Sen. John McCain said it's time the U.S. armed the Ukrainian military while also calling for a rapid escalation of sanctions against Russia. By Rachel Roubein

  • Rachel Roubein, National Journal
Policy

GOP Proposes More National Guard Troops for the Border Crisis

House GOP lawmakers claim their border plan is a 'major change' that will cost 'less than half' of the president's nearly $4 billion border response package. By Billy House and Rachel Roubein

  • Billy House and Rachel Roubein, National Journal