The Ketchup Comeback Kid

By Mary Ann Akers
Roll Call Staff

Dec. 12, 2005, 12 a.m.

The bureaucrat blamed for Ronald Reagan’s most notorious social policy faux pas — the cockamamie idea to count ketchup as a vegetable in school lunches — is finally feeling vindicated. Thanks to a little-noticed news report touting the nutritional value of ketchup, Bill Hoagland is rising above his critics and friends who have ruthlessly teased him for the past 24 years.

Schumer Advocates for Many on Panel

Nov. 16, 12 a.m.

As Senate Majority Leader, Lyndon Johnson once said of the Joint Economic Committee, “It’s as useless as tits on a bull.” But as that panel’s chairman during the 110th Congress, Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) seized the opportunity to elevate the traditionally low-profile post to the forefront of shaping policy. Read Full Article