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Webb Aide Could Get 5 Years

By John McArdle
Roll Call Staff
March 28, 2007, Midnight

After spending his 45th birthday in jail, Phillip Thompson, an aide to Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.), appeared in D.C. Superior Court on Tuesday to plead not guilty to felony charges for carrying his boss’s loaded handgun into a Senate office building Monday.

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February 9, 2012

Rep. Michele Bachmann, who recently suspended her campaign for the presidency, speaks at the 2012 Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 9.

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The clear expectation is Congress will get very little done this election year. But what does get accomplished, at least in the high-profile areas, will largely be the handiwork of an elite group of staffers — who combine policy expertise, political acumen and the trust of their lawmaker bosses to drive much of the legislative agenda.

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