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Congressional Hits and Misses: Week of Jan. 5, 2015
[jwp-video n=”1″] Lawmakers kicked off 2015 lobbying for 7-Elevens, sparing grandmas from purgatory and taking their talents to South Beach.
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[jwp-video n=”1″] Lawmakers kicked off 2015 lobbying for 7-Elevens, sparing grandmas from purgatory and taking their talents to South Beach.
[jwp-video n=”1″] Lawmakers spent the week calling one another by the wrong name, professing their love for Gouda and discussing their Valentine’s Day plans.
[jwp-video n=”1″] Members spent the three-day workweek trading lines over the Constitution, discussing Twinkies and found time to play Jeopardy! on the House floor.
[jwp-video n=”1″] Sen. Charles E. Schumer laughs at his own jokes and shows his love for Rep. Steve King, all the while remaining very “happy.”
[jwp-video n=”1″] Before leaving town for two weeks, lawmakers learned arithmetic, “quacked” at one another and practiced three-point turns.
[jwp-video n=”1″] Sen. David Vitter quotes his “stupid amendment,” Sen. John Cornyn tells his colleagues to “imagine his surprise” and Sen.
[jwp-video n=”1″] Before leaving for the holidays, lawmakers paid tribute to one another recalling “spawned” marriages while thanking their “awful” staff.
[jwp-video n=”1″] With a Homeland Security shutdown looming, lawmakers resolved to invent holidays, toss snowballs and take naps on the House floor.
[jwp-video n=”1″] Members spent a short week in Congress learning about drones, women’s health and the difference between one trillion and one thousand billion.
[jwp-video n=”1″] Lawmakers spent the week locating Ruby Ridge on a map, snapping selfies with pigs and preparing for bazooka-armed lesser prairie-chickens.
[jwp-video n=”1″] Even with party retreats last week, members still found time to recognize illegitimate children, debate NFL rules and bake cookies in the House chamber.
[jwp-video n=”1″] Heard on the Hill’s tribute to retiring lawmakers rolls on this week with Sen.
[jwp-video n=”1″] With holiday jet fumes in the air, Congress spent its final full week of 2014 on “The Colbert Report,” strategizing for bar fights and telling their favorite Dick Cheney
[jwp-video n=”1″] From food to Janet Jackson and from mic drops to outer space, Heard on the Hill presents the best gaffes, insults and soundbites from Capitol Hill you just had to see
[jwp-video n=”1″] With Congress out of town, Heard on the Hill pays tribute this week to the longest serving woman in Congress, Sen. Barbara A.
By JM Rieger and Cory Brown [jwp-video n=”1″] Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell again critiqued the 2010 health care overhaul during his opening remarks Wednesday, saying it
[jwp-video n=”1″] White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest assured reporters Wednesday that a viral photo of the president on Instagram does not show him holding cigarettes.
[jwp-video n=”1″] President Barack Obama has authorized sending up to 450 additional U.S. troops to Iraq to help fight the Islamic State terror group, but the troops won’t be heading into direct
That cut of 33 percent, or $50 million, amounts to 1 one-hundredth of 1 percent of all the non-defense dollars Congress will be permitted to appropriate for fiscal 2016 so long as the sequester
That cut of 33 percent, or $50 million, amounts to 1 one-hundredth of 1 percent of all the non-defense dollars Congress will be permitted to appropriate for fiscal 2016 so long as the sequester rules