Heard On The Hill · 117th Congress
Photos of the week ending March 11, 2022
Photos of the week: There was ice cream on the Mall, and House Democrats headed to their retreat in Philadelphia.
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Photos of the week: There was ice cream on the Mall, and House Democrats headed to their retreat in Philadelphia.
“It really rings hollow when you can’t go there,” one tour operator says of trying to sell students on the Capitol’s symbolism.
Our clocks will once again “spring ahead” one hour this Sunday as daylight saving time begins. Some in Congress want a change.
Lawmakers seem like they "missed an entire technology revolution,” he says. If you pushed telehealth, “you were a messenger of the Antichrist.”
Photos of the week: This week at the Capitol was all about the guests — first President Joe BIden, and then Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson.
Raw page numbers may seem like a crude measure. But as lawmakers pack more into fewer but bigger bills, it’s one way to measure productivity.
His old job was “much better,” but the Democrat has a very personal mission. “Every one of us knows someone who’s succumbed,” he says.
While Chair Zoe Lofgren urged Congress to keep its “promise,” ranking member Rodney Davis called it “unworkable” and “impractical.”
“Remember, Washington put the country ahead of himself,” says Vermont Democrat, who has served in the Senate for nearly half a century.
“Individuals may choose to mask at any time, but it is no longer a requirement,” a letter sent to House staff Sunday night said.
“This is something people in this town would kill to learn, and I’m going to teach it to you,” the Washington Democrat recalls his boss saying.
Only people with house.gov or senate.gov email addresses will be able to use the app at first, though the creator hopes to expand.
The sponsor of a House resolution to authorize staff union organization efforts is urging everyone to take one step at a time.
Photos of the week: With the House gone, the Senate worked to finish another continuing resolution to avoid a government shutdown.
The House Modernization hearing gave district staffers a public forum, however brief, to say how Congress could run better for them.
At least two new marble and bronze faces will arrive at the Capitol this year — including a Black woman who replaces a Confederate general.
How Cynthia Lummis, a rancher and grandmother, was crowned the Senate’s queen of crypto - Fintech
Moderates may be an endangered species in politics, but they have reason to hope, the Arizona Democrat says.
Photos of the week: This week the House of Representatives made a brief appearance, an albino squirrel was spotted, as was Angelina Jolie, while appropriators tried too find a way to keep the government funded
“This is, for Dems on the Hill, a ‘what side are you on?’ moment,” said one strategist, alluding to a pro-union song popularized by Pete Seeger.