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“I don’t think you can fully understand just how joyous it can be without seeing the uglier side of it.” Here’s a portion of our conversation, edited and condensed.
First off, said a former staffer for a Senate Republican, Cruz should have remembered the other crisis Texas finds itself mired in: the coronavirus. “He shouldn’t be travelling!”
“This is what happens when D.C. is left without the authority to protect ourselves,” the group tweeted in the aftermath of the chaos. The emphasis is a new one for the group.
Cawthorn, who uses a wheelchair, said sleeping in his office has so far suited his needs when in Washington, and it allows him to work late without having to worry about a commute.
“That was the situation for most offices at the time,” the Massachusetts Democrat says of those days without a paycheck, interning for a member of a big political family, Rep. Joseph P.
’Tis the season for legislative clichés, and here are a few that Congress can’t seem to live without.
“The chair would advise that all members should leave the chamber promptly after casting their votes.
“Could I — should I — not disclose?” she wondered.
“It should be of no surprise that the nation’s first Black fraternity started on a white university campus,” Cleaver says of its founding at Cornell University.
Someone should be able walk out of their uniform one day and walk to the VA for their benefits, and not have to face obstacles because they haven’t collected every single piece of paper throughout their
Bowman says he was taken to the precinct, only to be released to his mother, without any charges. Accepting the incident as just the way things worked, his mother sought no recourse.
Practice for the annual Congressional Women’s Softball Game should be in full swing by now, but not this year.
The NHL followed suit, as did Major League Baseball, postponing opening day while it works on a plan to start the season, possibly without fans in the stands.
A: We started out, Nini and I (we were like twins), as what you would now call legislative correspondents, only we did the entire job without computers.
This should have been one of the busiest months of the year for the Capitol Hill watering hole. Instead, he’s pivoting hard.
We all should think this way. I’m not implying in any way that I think I have it.
Should they be more like you? A sense of decorum and privacy is really overrated. Authenticity is the most important thing. It’s OK to be wild and crazy sometimes.
Soccer federation doesn’t want to arrange a team trip without the team going to the White House as well.
“Chuck, you should know he invited me to come on one of his salmon fishing trips in Alaska,” Leahy said. “I didn’t catch a fish either. Marcelle did,” Leahy added, referring to his wife.
Between late October and early May you can’t swing a dead cat in this city without hitting a Capitol Hill bro decked out in The Jacket. You know the one I’m talking about.