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A new ‘Contract with America’ coming soon?

January 19th, 2010 | Comments Off | Posted in House, Republicans
Barry Jackson, who was director of the Republicans' "Contract with America" program, is back on Capitol Hill. House Minority Leader John Boehner announced today that Jackson will become the minority leader's chief of staff. Contract with America helped the party... pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/YoO3Dc9OeRsusaItREMiabAeBfs/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/YoO3Dc9OeRsusaItREMiabAeBfs/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/YoO3Dc9OeRsusaItREMiabAeBfs/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/YoO3Dc9OeRsusaItREMiabAeBfs/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TP-OnPolitics/~4/95APJI_NfNI" height="1" width="1"/

U.S. House lightens 2010 work schedule

December 2nd, 2009 | Comments Off | Posted in House
Despite pledging to work five-day workweeks, House Democrats released a 2010 calendar today that shows lawmakers working just 17 days during all of January and February, The Hill newspaper reports. The schedule, released by House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md.,...


Rep. Bachus turns away federal money

December 1st, 2009 | Comments Off | Posted in House
The House of Representatives spending reports posted on the Internet for the first time this week show how much lawmakers are spending on office supplies, salaries, travel, catering and the like. The reports also highlight another option open to lawmakers...


Rep. Issa tops list of richest lawmakers

November 30th, 2009 | Comments Off | Posted in House
Despite the worst recession in decades, U.S. House lawmakers had a combined net worth of at least $1 billion in 2008, a new analysis by Roll Call newspaper shows. The richest House member, California Rep. Darrell Issa, is worth at...


Garamendi sworn in as House member

November 5th, 2009 | Comments Off | Posted in Democrats, House, Special elections
California’s Lt. Gov. John Garamendi, the winner of Tuesday’s special congressional election in California’s 10th District, was sworn in just after noon today by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The 64-year-old Democrat won the special election against Republican David Harmer with...


Airline snubs Samoan congressman

September 30th, 2009 | Comments Off | Posted in House, People in politics
Rep. Eni Faleomavaega, a non-voting delegate who represents American Samoa in the House, wasn't getting cut any slack from Continental Airlines as he tried to rush home to help coordinate relief efforts on his tsunami-stricken island, his spokeswoman, Lisa Williams,...


Rep. Wilson: Dems ‘playing politics’

September 15th, 2009 | Comments Off | Posted in House
Rep. Joe Wilson, who is facing a disciplinary vote in the House today for yelling "You lie" at President Obama last week, just posted a Twitvid in which he says the Democrats are "playing politics" and should get back to...


Rep. Joe Wilson’s hot on the Internet

September 10th, 2009 | Comments Off | Posted in Democrats, House, Obama administration
After Rep. Joe Wilson accused President Obama of lying during Obama’s prime-time address last night, people have been trying to find out more about the five-term Republican from South Carolina on the Internet. Wilson’s name appeared twice on Google Trends...


Barney Frank looks back . . . and thinks ahead

September 8th, 2009 | Comments Off | Posted in Democrats, House, Obama administration
In a new biography about his life, Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., tells author Stuart Weisberg he would like to round out his political career as part of President Obama’s Cabinet. The 69-year-old congressman said he would be interested in being...


Rep. Rehberg released from hospital

August 31st, 2009 | Comments Off | Posted in House
Rep. Denny Rehberg, R-Mont., was released from the hospital today following a boating accident Thursday that left several people injured. In a statement, Rehberg said he was "very grateful for the overwhelming support and prayers we’ve received from around the...