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PHOTOS: Look At All The Gawking We Did Over Prince Harry

The Huffington Post | Renee Jacques | Posted 05.15.2013 | Style

For one week, American women forgot about their lifelong obsession with Ryan Gosling and focused their eyes (and cell phone cameras) on a new boy in t...

Capitol Hill's Reverse Revolving Door Unveiled

The Nation | Posted 05.06.2013 | Politics

In February of this year, news broke that Treasury Secretary Jack Lew received an exit package worth over $1 million by Citigroup shortly before joini...

Will Wrigley

Senators To Obama: End Veterans Benefits Backlog

HuffingtonPost.com | Will Wrigley | Posted 04.30.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- The majority of the U.S. Senate sent a letter to President Barack Obama on Friday, urging his "direct and public involvement" in fixing ...

Chelsea Kiene

Veterans Present Petition To White House Calling Obama To Fix Benefits Backlog

HuffingtonPost.com | Chelsea Kiene | Posted 03.21.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- A group of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans met with senior White House officials Wednesday to express what they are calling an urgent need...

The Most Influential Latino Staffers on Capitol Hill

Pablo Manriquez | Posted 05.19.2013 | Latino Voices
Pablo Manriquez

The demographics of Capitol Hill are changing with the times. Thanks to hiring initiatives, Latinos are arriving and advancing in significant congressional staffer positions. Here are eleven Latinos staffers on Capitol Hill who are leading the way.

House of Cards Deals From the Bottom of the Deck

Mark R. Kennedy | Posted 05.15.2013 | Entertainment
Mark R. Kennedy

What a poor -- and entirely misleading -- representation of the American political process! Skullduggery is not a prerequisite for legislative success. Hard, and occasionally boring work is what carries the day at the Capitol.

Republicans Release Video Promoting Capitol Tours

AP | Posted 03.12.2013 | Politics

BY JIM ABRAMS, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS House Republicans have put out a video to remind visitors that while they may be locked out of the Obama White ...

Sequester State Of Play: Real Negotiation Won't Happen Until It Hits

The Huffington Post | Jon Ward | Posted 02.15.2013 | Politics

High level sources on Capitol Hill expect the sequester to happen at this point. Some leading Republicans have said this. But Hill aides also say ...

Love Beats Politics and Money to Inspire Substantial Change

Caroline Brewer | Posted 04.16.2013 | Politics
Caroline Brewer

Love is like the seed that is in itself. It multiplies, elevates, and corrects errors, especially the erroneous thinking that those who are deficient in love have about themselves.

Hill Superstars Revealed In New Report

Roll Call | Posted 04.13.2013 | Politics

Roll Call's Fabulous 50 showcases Capitol Hill's leading staffers - the people behind the scenes who wield the power and drive their party's message....

Marijuana Legalization Advocates Step Up Efforts On Capitol Hill

The Hill | Posted 02.10.2013 | Politics

Advocates for the legalization of marijuana plan to step up their political giving and lobbying efforts now that members of Congress are taking an int...

Mainstream Support of Hagel: Is This a Crack in the Wall of Intimidation?

Dr. Charles G. Cogan | Posted 03.13.2013 | Politics
Dr. Charles G. Cogan

Does all this represent a crack in the wall of intimidation, to use the word of Mr. Hagel to Mr. Miller? Will the message get through to Benjamin Netanyahu, Avigdor Lieberman, et al to stop interfering in the American political process?

McCongress Serves Up Sausage

Marie Woolf | Posted 03.05.2013 | Politics
Marie Woolf

When business starts heading east, the innocent West Coast girl discovers that Washington, D.C. is pricier than San Francisco, Honolulu or even midtow...

Another Death, Another Gun

Tamar Abrams | Posted 12.28.2012 | Politics
Tamar Abrams

How exactly do you know who to hand guns over to, Mr. LaPierre? And do you see how some of us might be troubled by the ease with which so many obtain guns and then kill people with them?

Jason Linkins

Rep. Virginia Foxx Will Have The Head Of Anyone Caught Riding Her Special Elevator

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.13.2012 | Politics

Last week, the hot dollop of Capitol Hill gossip was that Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) had "chewed out a House staffer after catching her riding on a ...

To Protest Naked or Not to Protest Naked

Jennifer Hoelzer | Posted 02.11.2013 | Politics
Jennifer Hoelzer

Who remembers what the naked protesters were protesting? When you work on Capitol Hill, you get used to being protested. During my ten years there, I was yelled at, sworn at and spit on.

PHOTOS: Speaker Boehner Exudes Christmas Cheer

Posted 12.05.2012 | DC

WASHINGTON -- House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) joined a group of lawmakers on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday night to turn on the li...

The Hill's 25 Women To Watch

The Hill | Posted 10.24.2012 | Women

Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, Condoleezza Rice — these are women who have made their marks in politics in a big way. But look beyond this highest t...

Capitol Hill Staffers Detail Work Complaints In Survey

| Posted 10.24.2012 | DC

By Emma Dumain Roll Call Staff Congressional staffers care deeply about their jobs, but they don’t enjoy the long hours, endless workflow and th...

Family Time At The Ryans Could Be #AWKWARD

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 10.12.2012 | Business

Paul Ryan is in favor of major cuts to federal spending, but his cousin's construction company has pulled in big bucks from government funded projects...

Sequestration May Hit Capitol Hill Staffers Where It Really Hurts

| Posted 10.03.2012 | DC

By Emma Dumain Roll Call Staff Members of Congress nearly uniformly decry the threat of sequestration and the effect that $109 billion in automati...

This Is What Happens To Waste From Congress

| Posted 09.24.2012 | DC

By Emma Dumain Roll Call Staff It's been a little less than a year since Congress began burning 90 percent of its trash for energy, and the Archit...

Oversight: Why Congress Needs to Back the Securities and Exchange Commission

Sanjay Sanghoee | Posted 11.17.2012 | Business
Sanjay Sanghoee

For the SEC to do its job properly, it needs adequate resources, and for that it needs the support of Congress. To understand why the budgetary issue is so important, and why the SEC deserves more funding, let's look at the trajectory of the Commission since the Madoff scandal.

Congress Fails To Fund Repairs To Capitol Dome Cracks

| Posted 09.12.2012 | DC

By Emma Dumain Roll Call Staff Despite efforts by a bipartisan cadre of Senators, money to continue repairs on the aging Capitol Dome is not inclu...

Congress Set For Fall Return

AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 11.09.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON — Fresh off a five-week vacation, lawmakers return to Washington on Monday for a truncated pre-election session in which Congress wil...