Stories by Neda Semnani:
Feb. 22, 2012
Ten Members of Congress have joined the many, many people who have been photographed with their mouths shut.
Feb. 22, 2012
The American Mustache Institute is on a mission.
Feb. 21, 2012
Rep. Frank Guinta (R-N.H.) helped save a tugboat today.
Feb. 21, 2012
Speaker John Boehner (Ohio) is not the only Republican laying down the sartorial law these days.
Feb. 17, 2012
There is no greater form of political speech than how one covers, marks, nourishes, medicates, shelters and moves one’s body. The latest exhibit at the Library of Congress, “Politics and the Dancing Body,” considers the effect of dance — and by extension the body — on politics and how the political world shaped and inspired American dance.
Feb. 16, 2012
Jennifer Crider, the deputy executive director of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, has been getting all sorts of love on this day, aka her birthday.
Feb. 15, 2012
Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann must be really missing the campaign trail this week.
Feb. 14, 2012
Michigan Rep. Fred Upton’s niece is the latest GOP family member to get nearly naked for the camera.
Feb. 14, 2012
In honor of GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum breaking out in the polls (and a special St. Valentine’s Day greeting to our readers!), we here at HOH have decided to do a roundup of all the things on God’s green Earth that Santorum loves: homosexuals, beer and bars.
Feb. 13, 2012
The Capitol Hill that Mary Z. Gray knows is "a different Capitol Hill than the one the world knows." By a long shot. Gray spent most of her life living on the Hill and writing for a living. Now, at 93, she has written a book about her life and about a Hill that few people know.
Feb. 10, 2012
Newt Gingrich has a tight schedule for Inauguration Day, andthe only way he can get to everything on his to-do list is to become superpowerful via executive order.
Feb. 9, 2012
Former GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain tells the Conservative Political Action Conference that his 9-9-9 plan is explained in a five-minute video posted on the website CainConnections.com. The movie has cartoons and monsters.
Feb. 9, 2012
In 1945 the Nazis weren’t defeated! They went to live on the dark side of the moon — or so imagines “Iron Sky,” a movie set in 2018 about Space Nazis who attack America.
Feb. 8, 2012
On Monday, HOH reported that the New Jersey delegation was being a bit salty to their New York brethren, and today, it appears, the cross-Hudson rivalry heated up.
Feb. 7, 2012
Louisiana Rep. Jeff Landry (R) is having a fun contest on his shiny Facebook page.
Feb. 3, 2012
At midnight, the Bangor Daily News broke the story: Maine Sen. Susan Collins (R) is engaged to Tom Daffron, chief operating officer of the Jefferson Consulting Group and a former top aide for Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska). The couple is planning a summer wedding somewhere in Maine.
Feb. 3, 2012
Maybe it’s a Sunshine State thing, but we at HOH couldn’t help but be impressed by the latest example of Floridian chapeau flair.
Feb. 3, 2012
Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown’s campaign has paid the Republican Senator’s daughter, former “American Idol” contestant Ayla Brown, $9,500 for performing at three campaign events since December 2010, the Boston Globe reports.
Feb. 2, 2012
Sen. Chuck Grassley is famous Twitterwide for his tweeting style, and during the past few hours, the man has outdone himself.
Feb. 1, 2012
Washington women have to navigate the same maze as their male colleagues but with different rules. To pretend they don’t is as silly as it is disingenuous. What’s more — as the exhibit “Shakespeare’s Sisters: Voices of English and European Women Writers, 1500-1700” shows — women have always faced this challenge. And we’ve done it with some serious style.
Jan. 31, 2012
Singer-songwriter John Legend and students from Washington’s Duke Ellington School of the Arts performed Marvin Gaye’s classic “What’s Going On” at the Kennedy Center today.
Jan. 31, 2012
House Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman John Mica mistook a young woman’s warm, caffeinated beverage for his own.
Jan. 30, 2012
House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan turned down cake on Sunday.
Jan. 26, 2012
Rep. Barney Frank will marry his longtime partner, according to Capitol Hill sources.
Jan. 25, 2012
Rep. Sanford Bishop announced Wednesday afternoon the creation of the bipartisan Congressional Chicken Caucus.
