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Heard on the Hill: Senator in Train-ing

“It later dawned on her that it’s a new Congress, and she doesn’t know all the new faces yet.” Rummy’s Left Out in the Cold. Sen.

January 30, 2009

K Street Files: Exxon Turning Blue?

That certainly differs from Exxon’s own political giving.

January 30, 2009

GOP Leaders Are Irritated by Smooth Confirmations

GOP leaders had hoped to at least draw blood against Eric Holder, Obama’s pick for attorney general, and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.

January 30, 2009

The Rose Garden: White House Transparency Off to a Cloudy Start

But until Sunday’s Super Bowl day interview with Matt Lauer of NBC’s “Today Show,” the only face time Obama had given a U.S. reporter was on the night of his inauguration, when ABC’s Robin Roberts caught

January 30, 2009

House GOP Finds the Right Economic Stimulus Strategy

That’s a smart and entirely reasonable strategy.

January 30, 2009

On the Markey on Energy

It has not been for a lack of effort on Markey’s part.

January 30, 2009

Gregg ‘Aware’ of Commerce Consideration

John Lynch is a Democrat who would have the power to name Gregg’s replacement.

January 30, 2009

Van Hollen Enters Soft Money Case

.” In its filing last year, the RNC had argued that BCRA’s “federal funds restriction” was unconstitutional.

January 30, 2009

Daschle Under Fire for Tax Troubles

The same administration officials said they believe Daschle’s nomination will move forward, despite the revelations of tax troubles.

January 30, 2009

Hill Talk: Eastern Market Works Overtime

Both the victim and the officer’s names are being withheld while the incident is investigated.

January 30, 2009

Reid Staffer Darrel Thompson to Be Burris’ Interim Chief of Staff

Thompson, who was chief of staff to President Barack Obama’s Senate campaign in 2004, will be on loan to Burris for an undetermined amount of time, Reid’s office announced Friday evening.

January 30, 2009

Obama Typifies Spirit of Civic Engagement

Kennedy, as America’s first Catholic president, to act like a political “outsider.” But even though he is America’s first African-American president, Barack Obama is no more an outsider than was JFK.

January 30, 2009

Waxman Aide Is Player on Health Care

One of Waxman’s top health care priorities for this year is ensuring health care coverage for all Americans.

January 30, 2009

Report: All Is Quiet on Ethics Front

For the second year in a row, the Senate Ethics Committee conducted no investigations that resulted in disciplinary actions, according to the panel’s annual report.

January 30, 2009

Clyburn Restocks Floor Team

And Michael Hacker, Clyburn’s coalitions director, is joining the floor operation as a deputy. He joins Allie Neill, a deputy floor director and senior adviser.

January 30, 2009

House Energy and Commerce Committee Through the Ages

Roosevelt’s New Deal program.

January 30, 2009

The All-GOP Firm: It Ain’t Dead Yet

As the most prominent all-GOP lobby shop left in town, the firm is brazenly keeping its one-party status, bucking the street’s longtime bipartisan trend.

January 30, 2009

Cops in Murky Bonus Situation

This year’s inauguration appeared to entail more effort and costs than in the past.

January 30, 2009

Stimulating the Economy With the F-22

With the economy in a nose dive, backers of the Air Force’s F-22 fighter plane have refined their lobbying strategy to argue that buying one of the costliest Pentagon aircraft ever built will give the

January 30, 2009

Camera on African-American History

For Gardullo to hear the same song at the inauguration of America’s first black president was “astounding,” he said.

January 30, 2009