Bill Lifts Restrictions on Staff-Led Tours
But on Friday, Members of the House Appropriations Committee gave a rare round of applause to a provision that would prohibit the Architect of the Capitol from using funds to restrict staff-led tours
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Shop Talk: Winners and Losers
The PSG plans to consult Congressional campaigns and other organizations on media relations, crisis communications and writing services.
Florida Senate Race Could Expose CBC Rifts
Corrine Brown (D-Fla.) announced that she was forming a Senate exploratory committee, some of her colleagues in the Congressional Black Caucus and in the Sunshine State’s Democratic delegation are scratching
Moran Gives $175,000 to Brother in Va. Gubernatorial Race
Jim Moran (D-Va.) has now funneled a total of $175,000 from his Congressional campaign account to the gubernatorial efforts of his younger brother, former state Del.
Heard on the Hill: How Do You Spell Relief?
Forget Bruce Springsteen or even Britney Spears — the hottest concert for Congressional fundraising this summer is … the Jonas Brothers?
Pelosi-Murtha Bond Resilient
These staffers say Murtha should follow the lead of Ways and Means Chairman Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.), who last year filed an ethics complaint against himself to try to clear his name amid a swirl of reports
From Citizen Soldiers to Citizen Legislators
— We expect a reflexive dismissal of the value of military service to appear in Department of Homeland Security reports, not in a “nonpartisan analysis of American politics and elections.
Forces Gearing Up to Battle Value-Added Tax
And last week after reports surfaced that the Obama administration might be eyeing the idea more seriously, groups that oppose the tax kicked into gear.
House Leaders Throw Blue Dogs a PAYGO Bone
When press reports on the morning of April 24 indicated that House and Senate Democratic leaders and top White House staff had reached tentative agreement on a budget conference report the previous evening
Just Three Senators Quiz Census Nominee
While the focus of the hearing was on the drawing of Congressional districts, those three Members — Sens.
K Street Files: PhRMA’s Take
And while Tauzin said a bill would pass before 2010, they predicted that process could get tense when Congressional negotiators start crunching the numbers in earnest and determining exactly what role
CRS Report Leaks Prove Tough to Stop
Earlier this year, Wikileaks put more than 6,000 Congressional Research Service reports online, spawning excitement in the blogosphere, ire from some Members and an investigation by the inspector general
Congress’ Penchant for Delegation Can Be a Sin of Commission
By the time a commission finally reports, the crisis has often passed and public interest has waned.
Politics & Poker: Ball Invites Scrutiny With Google Me!’
.) — and a top recruit in the eyes of the National Republican Congressional Committee — is defiant as he invokes the G-word. Yeah, there’s a lot of crazy stuff out there, he concedes.
The Lady Doth Protest Too Much
Harman was one among the Congressional leadership who was informed by the Bush-Cheney duumvirate of the Terrorist Surveillance Program.
Van Hollen Tests Power of Position
Such conflicts were not uncommon in the previous Congress between the Speaker and Rahm Emanuel, former Caucus chairman and Van Hollen’s notoriously short-fused predecessor at the helm of the Democratic Congressional
Ethics Case Disclosures Still Distant
The Office of Congressional Ethics could wrap up a half-dozen investigations as early as next week, but public disclosure of those probes is unlikely to occur until mid-July at the earliest.
Union: Too Many Gaps in GPO Security
“Using security guards to do the job of federally trained officers not only doesn’t save money, it also weakens security considerably,— Hardwick, chairman of the GPO Police Labor Committee, told
Campaign Committees Anxious to Tap Obama’s Popularity
According to independent expenditure reports filed with the Federal Election Commission, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee had spent $574,000 on the race before the DNC made its first significant
Must Senators Disclose Good Deals on Property Sales?
[IMGCAP(1)]A: It’s springtime, which, in the world of Congressional ethics, means it’s financial disclosure season.