By
Aaron Guerrero
| May 25, 2012, 4:11 p.m.
As Memorial Day weekend approaches, we wanted to give readers a quick roundup of what we learned this week in our ventures out on the diamond.
By
Patrick Curran
| May 24, 2012, 11:54 p.m.
Do you believe in miracles? The Press Hits! sure do.
Aaron Guerrero
| May 24, 2012, 11:24 p.m.
The Colorado Cutthroats lived up to their pre-game smack talk Thursday night, taking it to the EditOrioles, CQ Roll Call’s softball team, 23-7.
By
Aaron Guerrero
| May 24, 2012, 12:15 p.m.
On June 20, the women of the Congress and the women of the press will square off for the fourth annual Congressional Women’s Softball Game. The game’s primary purpose is to raise money for the Young Survival Coalition, an organization that aids young women with breast cancer.
By
Patrick Curran
| May 24, 2012, 12:02 a.m.
Gary Caruso has spent the past 30-plus years moving in and out of Congressional offices and committees, agency appointments, private-sector positions and stints in the White House. He’s a Washington insider in every sense of the word — but he’d probably prefer the term “infielder.”
By
Warren Rojas
| May 24, 2012, Midnight
Here’s a handful of palate-pleasing carryouts in the Capitol Hill area we recommend checking out during your downtime.
By
Douglas Graham
| May 24, 2012, Midnight
Rhode Island Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse addresses a group of Close Up program students from the Ocean State on Wednesday in the Hart Senate Office Building Atrium.
By
Aaron Guerrero
| May 23, 2012, 3:30 p.m.
Last week, we tweeted at the Colorado Cutthroats, noting that the House Softball League team had not shown its Twitter feed some love in quite some time.
By
Aaron Guerrero
| May 23, 2012, Midnight
A native of Kokomo, Ind., and a freshman at Gettysburg College, Emily Cranfill recently won an internship co-sponsored by the American Political Items Collectors and the historical division of the Smithsonian Institution.
Elham Khatami
| May 23, 2012, Midnight
On May 29, Colin Powell will promote his latest memoir, “It Worked For Me: In Life and Leadership,” at a sold-out Sixth & I Historic Synagogue. The event is co-sponsored by Politics and Prose and will be hosted by NPR’s Robert Siegel.
By
Douglas Graham
| May 23, 2012, Midnight
Like pawns in a chess game, Members’ nameplates sit in place for the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Readiness and Management Support markup of the defense authorization bill Tuesday.
By
Aaron Guerrero
| May 22, 2012, 10:25 p.m.
Derek Kettner can fly around the base pads and the clouds.
By
Aaron Guerrero
| May 22, 2012, 5:07 p.m.
On game day, it’s not uncommon to hear some players express the need for new team shirts.
By
Douglas Graham
| May 22, 2012, Midnight
Mr. Republican, Sen. Robert Taft of Ohio, pays tribute to fallen soldiers at the 1939 Memorial Day observance at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery a little more than three months before World War II began in Europe.
By
Aaron Guerrero
| May 21, 2012, 11:32 p.m.
On an overcast Monday night, the Whiskey Caucus, a House Softball League team, fell 15-13 to the Three Amigos, a team primarily made up of staffers from the Texas delegation.
By
Aaron Guerrero
| May 21, 2012, 4:58 p.m.
When it comes to summing up the prospect of softball surviving this week’s onslaught of expected rain, we turn to the wise philosopher Astro: “Ruh-roh!”
By
Aaron Guerrero
| May 21, 2012, 12:54 p.m.
The Whiskey Caucus is solving Washington’s partisan woes one drink and softball game at a time.
By
Aaron Guerrero
| May 21, 2012, Midnight
Up until now, Natasha Mayer’s professional life consisted of crisscrossing the globe, spending time in areas that many of us see only on TV or a map.
By
Emily Cahn
| May 21, 2012, Midnight
It’s the height of commencement season, and life advice is flying as Members of Congress
and other big-name political types dispense their wisdom to the class of 2012. And, no matter where they spoke or what ideological stripes they wear, politicians tended to hew to the golden rule of commencement addresses: lots of platitudes, not much politics.
By
Douglas Graham
| May 21, 2012, Midnight
Alida Lettunich, a student from Mount Madonna High School in Santa Cruz, Calif., takes a sun break on the East Plaza of the Capitol following a meeting between students from her school and Rep. David Dreier on Thursday.
