Lobbying
By
Janie Lorber
| 48 minutes ago With a highway bill stalled and a ban on earmarks in Congress, some Washington, D.C., lobbyists are telling their clients to staff up for local battles over federal transportation funds.
By
Jessica Brady, Anna Palmer
| 48 minutes ago House Republicans are trying again to focus their efforts on a job creation agenda, with leaders acknowledging they want to boost the GOP’s political standing with voters.
Lobbying
By
Kate Ackley
| 48 minutes ago Capitol Hill denizens won’t have trouble finding a doctor in the House — or Senate on Tuesday. That’s because nearly 500 emergency physicians will be on the Hill lobbying for a medical liability reform bill.
Opinion
By Don Wolfensberger
| 48 minutes ago On Feb. 23, President Barack Obama divorced himself from the Defense of Marriage Act by directing the Justice Department to stop defending its constitutionality in the courts. That prompted a partisan split in the House Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group on March 9 over whether the House should defend the act.
Politics
By Stuart Rothenberg
| 48 minutes ago That former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty is widely regarded as one of the top contenders for the Republican presidential nomination says a great deal about the GOP field.
Opinion
By Stan Collender
| 48 minutes ago It obviously would have been a terrible event for the human race if the world had ended Saturday as some had prophesied, but it might not have been all that bad from a federal budget perspective.
Politics
By
Joshua Miller
| 48 minutes ago Top Republicans in South Carolina say a map released by the state House Judiciary Subcommittee last week is likely to be close to the final product that gets signed into law.
Politics
By
Shira Toeplitz, Kyle Trygstad, Steve Peoples
| 48 minutes ago Roll Call Politics is releasing the first House ratings for the 2012 cycle. We’re beginning with the states that elect Members to at-large seats. The seven seats are largely expected to not be competitive, except in Montana.
Politics
By
Kyle Trygstad
| 48 minutes ago Amy Niles Gonzalez and several other former strategists at MSHC Partners recently launched the website for Blueprint Interactive, a new media strategy, marketing and design firm.
Around the Hill
By
Erin Mershon
| 48 minutes ago Sen. Thad Cochran learned much about politics and campaigning when he ran to be elected a cheerleader in college.
By
David M. Drucker
| 6:50 p.m. A small, bipartisan group of Senators formed Monday in an unsuccessful attempt to block a reauthorization of the Sept. 11-era anti-terrorism law known as the USA PATRIOT Act.
