Capitol Hill News

Capitol Hill's most festive seasonal event: Miracle on 3rd & 4th Street, Ugly Holiday Sweater Holiday Bar Tour, benefiting Toys for Tots is Saturday, December 12, 2009, 1-9 p.m. Start off the event anytime between 1-6 p.m. at Hawk 'n' Dove then bar-hop between Bullfeathers, Tune Inn, Thai Roma, 18th Amendment, and Ugly Mug.

With the Senate clashing over health care legislation through the weekend, President Obama will head to Capitol Hill on Sunday afternoon to meet with the Democratic caucus in a session that aides at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue said was designed to galvanize lawmakers, even as they remain internally divided over many important issues.

With the jobless rate rising and his approval ratings sinking, President Barack Obama hosted academics and leaders of business and labor at a White House jobs summit Thursday, seeking advice on how to boost employment.

One should never underestimate the seductiveness of television, particularly in this era of reality-based programming that not only attracts a large number of social bottom feeders but also frequently stimulates behavior that could only be ascribed to blithering idiots.

While administrations come and go, and power in Congress teeters between political parties, one thing remains constant in the lives of Washington, D.C.'s, elite: the power lunch.

Just bought and closed on a crib in DC. 1000 block North Carolina Ave, SE Capitol Hill District, 20003.

TO NATIONAL AND RELIGION EDITORS: CAIR to Release Report on U.S. Muslim Civil Rights Annual study looks at Islamophobia, watch lists, surveillance of mosques, profiling WASHINGTON, Nov.

Doug Hampton, whose wife had an affair with John Ensign, said in an interview that the Nevada senator should "resign immediately," claiming that powerful Republicans and others on Capitol Hill have protected Ensign .

Tuesday, November 24, 2009 Go solar in DC... From email: The Capitol Hill Energy Co-op is helping homeowners find out how to get started with solar energy.

Alongside these are some remarkable restaurants. The First Post's top five have been chosen for atmosphere and good value as much as for good food.

Potter graduates from basic combat training Army Reserve Pfc. Stormy Potter has graduated from Basic Combat Training at Fort Sill, Lawton.

Oh the delights of Washington D.C., the hub of intellect and history that has built the foundations of justice, political liberty and freedom for all.

For those that miss the obvious connection between Panama and DC, the $5 billion overhaul of the Big Ditch in Panama will now make it easier to ship cargo from Asia to the Gulf of Mexico, and from there into the midwest via rail lines, beating out formerly dominant west coast ports as the cheapest point of entry into the American interior.

Former President George W. Bush has settled on a modern brick-and-limestone design for his future presidential library and museum, complete with its own replica of the Oval Office and a "Texas Rose Garden" mimicking the original at the White House.

STAND UP TO THE BANKSTERS IN WASHINGTON, D.C. Goldman Sachs and the other banksters are back to making record profits and on track to hand out multi-billion dollar bonuses.

Tom Coburn is a Southern Baptist deacon, a family man married to a former Miss Oklahoma, a white-coated physician back in Muskogee who has delivered more than 4,000 babies and sees patients free of charge every Monday.

But there's a darker side of the story, something that Coburn, a Marcus Welby type in ostrich-skin boots, confesses is his less honorable side.

He's a member of the United States Senate.

'I would fire us all,' Coburn says, blasting Congress, as he does every chance he gets, as a place populated by people who don't do a whole lot to make the country a better place.

President Obama is meeting with House Democrats in the Cannon Office Building and given all the applause, it might be hard to remember that the president is on Capitol Hill to twist the arms of undecided lawmakers, and push some to cast a risky vote.

NOVEMBER 05: Representative Michel Bachmann speaks during a news conference 'To Make a Healthcare 'House Call' on Washington' at the US Capitol on November 5, 2009 in Washington, DC.

Legislation dealing with the delivery and cost of health care in the United States is nearing votes in both houses of the Congress.

But as one of 435 members of the House or even the 100 in the Senate, an individual lawmaker doesn't often feel the warmth of the limelight.