Helen Huiskes, NOTUS

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Helen Huiskes covers politics and the Senate for NOTUS.

Helen received her bachelor’s degree in English from Wheaton College in Illinois, with a minor in international relations. She spent three years as editor in chief of The Wheaton Record, where she also covered breaking news, faculty cuts and campus debates over race. Helen has interned at the Oregon alt-weekly Willamette Week and The Chronicle of Higher Education in D.C., and her work has appeared in Christianity Today.

Contact Helen via email: moc.S1765669030UTON@1765669030seksi1765669030uHnel1765669030eH1765669030

Some Republican Senators entertain nuking the filibuster to end the shutdown

“Obviously I’ll look at any plan that anyone puts out in order to reopen the government,” Sen. Susan Collins told NOTUS, even as Republican leadership is firmly opposed to changing the filibuster rules.

ByEm Luetkemeyer, NOTUS Helen Huiskes, NOTUS Riley Rogerson, NOTUS

October 21, 2025