Sam Gringlas
Sam Gringlas is an NPR Congressional Reporter.
He returned to NPR in 2025 after four years at NPR member station WABE in Atlanta where he reported on Georgia politics, including the 2022 and 2024 elections, the Georgia election interference case against President Donald Trump and the funeral of former President Jimmy Carter.
Gringlas was previously a producer for NPR's All Things Considered, contributing to coverage of politics, immigration, the pandemic, impeachments and news from across the country and abroad. He also helped cover the 2020 election with NPR's Washington Desk.
Originally from Michigan, Gringlas earned a degree in public policy from the University of Michigan.
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As Haley Stevens and Abdul El-Sayed vie for the Democratic nomination, voters are debating which way the party should go: establishment or insurgent; progressive or more moderate; new media or old. -
Darline Graham was sworn in on Tuesday during a brief ceremony on the floor of the Senate. She was appointed to fill the seat of her late brother by South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster. -
It's been nearly four weeks since Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., was hospitalized. It's not the first time this year that a member of Congress has been absent for weeks with scant details. -
The Second Continental Congress produced the Declaration of Independence 250 years ago, and its legacy can be seen in the Congress we know today. But are lawmakers living up to the founders' ideals? -
The decision to cancel a signing ceremony for the bipartisan housing bill comes at a moment when Trump and some Republicans are split over what GOP priorities should be ahead of the midterm elections. -
The GOP bill signed by President Trump provides roughly $70 billion for immigration enforcement, even as Democrats warn that Congress has ceded its oversight role with the legislation. -
Louisiana's Republican lawmakers raced to eliminate one of two majority-Black congressional seats in the state after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the current map unconstitutional in a sweeping ruling. -
The majority-Black district held for 34 years by South Carolina Democratic Rep. Jim Clyburn will survive intact, for now, after Republican state lawmakers rejected a plan to redraw congressional maps. -
In a rare rebuke, Senate Republicans postponed a vote to fund immigration enforcement amid alarm over the novel fund. -
Sen. Bill Cassidy is one of few remaining Republican senators who voted to convict President Trump after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. Trump endorsed his opponent, Rep. Julia Letlow.
