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Campus Notebook: At Least There’s Chicken

Jan. 15, 12 a.m.

Senate staffers forced to sleep in their offices Monday night may not get a bed, but they’ll at least get dinner.

Campus Notebook: A New Top ‘R’

Jan. 14, 12 a.m.

Rep. Dan Lungren (R-Calif.) will be the ranking member for the House Administration Committee, filling the shoes of longtime committee member Vernon Ehlers (R-Mich.).

Campus Notebook: A Growing Beard

Jan. 7, 12 a.m.

Thanks to an amped-up Democratic majority and a continued pledge to green the Capitol, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) now faces two more years of working with a Chief Administrative Officer he once asked to step down.

Campus Notebook: Bad Apples

Dec. 11, 12 a.m.

Two employees at the Library of Congress retail store pleaded guilty on Tuesday to stealing money from the store, while a former LOC employee was charged in connection with a conspiracy to steal the personal identities of other employees.

Campus Notebook: Safety Comes First

Dec. 10, 12 a.m.

Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Bob Bennett (R-Utah) sent a letter to the D.C. City Council and Mayor Adrian Fenty on Tuesday, asking that they reverse their decision to allow bars to be open until 5 a.m. during the week of the inauguration.

Campus Notebook: Driving, Sans Influence

Nov. 17, 12 a.m.

D.C. shadow Sen. Paul Strauss (D) repeatedly showed his Senate ID when he was stopped for drunken driving last month, according to court records.

Campus Notebook: Political Arrest

Nov. 10, 12 a.m.

D.C. shadow Sen. Paul Strauss (D) pleaded not guilty to a drunken-driving charge on Thursday after being stopped Oct. 1 in Northwest Washington, D.C.

Campus Notebook: A Thematic First

Nov. 6, 12 a.m.

President-elect Obama’s inauguration will have the theme “A New Birth of Freedom,” evoking the words of the president who began the Civil War.

Campus Notebook: A Virginia Treat

Oct. 30, 12 a.m.

Senate Sergeant-at-Arms Terrance Gainer took a few dozen employees on his office’s annual retreat this week, spending about $36,000 for two days of strategic planning and team-building exercises.

Campus Notebook: The Hungry and Outraged

Oct. 28, 12 a.m.

At least one staffer is still fighting against Friday’s price increases in the House cafeterias, recently sending a petition signed by 227 people to Chief Administrative Officer Dan Beard.

Campus Notebook: An Apple a Day

Oct. 23, 12 a.m.

The iPhone may be on every gadget-lover’s Christmas list, but Members could be stuck for a while using their BlackBerrys for House business.

Campus Notebook: Boycott, Via Facebook

Oct. 21, 12 a.m.

Outraged at the thought of a $4 grilled cheese or a $5 BLT, some staffers are using Facebook to protest the upcoming price increases in the House cafeterias.

Campus Notebook: A C of O for the CVC

Oct. 14, 12 a.m.

Less than two months before it opens, the Capitol Visitor Center is officially safe for visitors.

Campus Notebook: Gassing Up

Oct. 7, 12 a.m.

Congressional vehicles now have an environmentally friendly place to fill their tank: a private ethanol fueling station run by the Architect of the Capitol.

Campus Notebook: Union Bound

Sept. 29, 12 a.m.

The Government Accountability Office and its union settled on a collective bargaining agreement Friday, about one year after analysts voted to create the agency’s first-ever union.

Campus Notebook: Texas Gunslinger

Sept. 26, 12 a.m.

The Senate on Thursday rejected legislation overwhelmingly passed by the House that would allow Congress to regulate guns in the District of Columbia.

Campus Notebook: House Food Cost Could Rise

Sept. 22, 12 a.m.

Food at the House cafeterias may soon cost more because of the nationwide rising price of fuel and food.

Campus Notebook: Rough Ride

Sept. 22, 12 a.m.

The Capitol Visitor Center is essentially built and almost ready to go, except for one major problem: Officials still haven’t decided how to get visitors to the CVC’s doors.

Campus Notebook: Making It Official

Sept. 18, 12 a.m.

Senate officials have signed a contract with Restaurant Associates, setting the stage for the privatization of the chamber’s cafeterias.

Campus Notebook: A Long-Standing Shadow

Sept. 11, 12 a.m.

D.C. Shadow Sen. Paul Strauss held on to his seat in Tuesday’s Democratic primary, all but ensuring a win in November’s general election.

Campus Notebook: Moving Fruits

Aug. 11, 12 a.m.

Just a couple of weeks after it opened, the House farmers market has moved to a new location.

Campus Notebook: Ford Eatery Moves

July 28, 12 a.m.

The Skenteris family has only a few weeks until they are forced out of the Ford cafeteria, but staffers who miss their gyros and rice pilaf won’t have to travel far.

Campus Notebook: A Force on Barracks Row

July 23, 12 a.m.

Linda Parke Gallagher, a resident and business owner on Capitol Hill credited as a driving force behind the revitalization of Barracks Row, died Friday after a stroke. She was 64.

Campus Notebook: Closing In

July 22, 12 a.m.

The Capitol Visitor Center is ready for staff and furnishings after a Capitol fire marshal issued a temporary Certificate of Occupancy for the underground building on Monday.

Campus Notebook: RNC Protest Blues

July 21, 12 a.m.

Anti-war protesters must follow a city-designed parade route for the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, a U.S. district court judge ruled last week.

Campus Notebook: Justice for Sims

July 17, 12 a.m.

A court date of Oct. 10 was set in a traffic case in which Capitol Police officer Aidan Sims was left with critical injuries.

Campus Notebook: One More Try

July 16, 12 a.m.

D.C. activists are still three Senate votes away from passing a bill that would give the District a voting Representative in Congress.

Campus Notebook: Tsk, Tsk, Tsk

July 15, 12 a.m.

Capitol Police Chief Phillip Morse received overwhelmingly negative criticism from officers who participated in a survey commissioned by the Capitol Police Labor Committee.

Campus Notebook: Getting Greener

July 14, 12 a.m.

Reps. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) and Zach Wamp (R-Tenn.) introduced a bill on Thursday to authorize project demonstrations aimed at cutting energy consumption and cost in the House.

Campus Notebook: What! Free Bikes!

July 10, 12 a.m.

House staffers will soon have a new way to get around town, thanks to the long-anticipated Wheels4Wellness bike-sharing program that will be unveiled this afternoon.

Campus Notebook: One More Week

July 8, 12 a.m.

The Capitol Police union has extended the deadline for its members to complete a survey that seeks to determine how much confidence rank-and-file officers have for department leadership, particularly Chief Phillip Morse.

Campus Notebook: Protest Pains

June 30, 12 a.m.

Last week, Denver officials detailed where protesters will be allowed to stand during the Democratic National Convention.

Campus Notebook: Dark Days Ahead

June 26, 12 a.m.

The Capitol Police will soon face questions about their operations from their Senate oversight committee.

Campus Notebook: Hit and Run

June 24, 12 a.m.

An off-duty Capitol Police officer remains in critical condition after being injured in a hit-and-run near his Prince George’s County, Md., home late Saturday night.

Campus Notebook: Don’t Shoot

June 18, 12 a.m.

When Michael Gorbey walked near the Capitol with a loaded shotgun last winter, he spurred a drawn-out court case and a flurry of (often critical) media attention on the Capitol Police.

Campus Notebook: Mini-Lobbyists

June 17, 12 a.m.

Senators who oppose giving the District a full House seat can expect to get lectured Wednesday by 20 ninth-graders, courtesy of D.C. Public Schools.

Minor Malfunction

June 11, 12 a.m.

A stalled Senate subway train forced Senators to suffer Tuesday through an extra-long cloture vote on the energy bill.

Ferment Over Carbon Offsets

June 10, 12 a.m.

House officials are well aware of Rep. Vernon Ehlers’ distaste for the carbon offset market — the Michigan Republican loudly criticized Chief Administrative Officer Dan Beard when he bought $89,000 worth of offsets last year in an effort to make the House carbon-neutral.

Sharing Their Names

June 9, 12 a.m.

Members will soon know every other office that employs their “shared employees,” those financial and technical staffers who work in several House offices.

Modernizing the Force

June 5, 12 a.m.

Back in 1868, Capitol Police officers had to buy their own uniforms, and in 1944, the House and the Senate each got to hire half the force.

Doody’s Done

June 4, 12 a.m.

Deputy Chief Administrative Officer Dan Doody is resigning in June, leaving the House for an executive position at a government consulting firm.

Off the Presses

May 21, 12 a.m.

Deputy Public Printer William Turri will retire at the end of June, ending a five-year stint at the Government Printing Office that included almost a year as acting Public Printer. Turri, 68, temporarily took over the helm of the GPO when Public Printer Bruce James resigned in January 2007. Ten months later, President Bush gave Robert Tapella the job. …

Founding Fathers 2.0

May 19, 12 a.m.

The hundreds of thousands of letters, essays and official documents from America’s Founding Fathers may one day be easily accessible online.

Gorbey Update

May 15, 12 a.m.

Michael Gorbey said Wednesday that the government “doctored” a video allegedly showing him walking near Capitol Hill with a shotgun — the latest claim in his long-running insistence that he was framed.

There Goes the Maserati

May 13, 12 a.m.

Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.) wants to put a stop to Members using their annual office allowances to pay for long-term car leases. And he has introduced a bill to do just that.

A Coincidental Witness

May 8, 12 a.m.

An unidentified witness who works at the Supreme Court and Michael Gorbey’s girlfriend were among the latest entrants in the ongoing trial of the man Capitol Police arrested on Jan. 18 for allegedly carrying a loaded shotgun and a sword.

Gorbey Update

May 7, 12 a.m.

Prosecutors rested their case against Michael Gorbey on Tuesday after presenting the sword and shotgun that Capitol Police say he carried along with dozens of rounds of ammunition on his way to the Supreme Court on Jan. 18.

Shotgun Trial

April 29, 12 a.m.

Michael Gorbey, the man accused of carrying a shotgun near the Capitol this winter, faced one less charge as his trial opened Monday afternoon.

The Sword Stays

April 28, 12 a.m.

A District of Columbia Superior Court judge ruled last week that the sword, ammunition and other evidence found during the initial investigation of Michael Gorbey can be included in this week’s trial.

Court Update

April 24, 12 a.m.

Jury selection is expected to conclude today in the trial of Michael Gorbey, the man accused of carrying a shotgun and possessing an explosive device near the Capitol on Jan. 18.