ABOUT:
Defense policy analysis, commentary and discussion.Warren Rojas is a Heard on the Hill columnist for Roll Call. He returns to the business of shadowing our elected leaders after a five-year stint as the founding dining editor for Northern Virginia Magazine.
Rojas spent the early part of his career covering the sordid world of tax policy first as a Congressional reporter and later as the pioneering investigative reporter for Tax Notes. He holds journalism degrees from both James Madison University and American University.
Retiring Rep. Jo Bonner signed off from his career in public life with a self-effacing address recalling the unintentional sexy-talk he broadcast to millions a decade ago.
As we were so beautifully reminded this week, sometimes Hill staffers hit the sauce a little too hard.
Rep. Vicky Hartzler had some fun on the House floor Wednesday, railing against a federally mandated “rabbit disaster plan” as part of the GOP’s pre-recess blitz against odious government regulations.
The powers-that-be over at “Cap South” — a nascent Web series that views Congress through a fun-house mirror — are so excited about wrapping up their first season on Thursday that they’re offering Hill folks a chance to get in on the act.
A well-in-his-cups intern sparked a pseudo manhunt on Capitol Hill today, as staff from the office of a House Republican tried to contain a stumbling, bumbling aide apparently dead set on getting some face time with his dream guy, ex-GOP vice presidential pick and current House Budget Chairman Paul D. Ryan.
From Bill Cosby’s lips to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s ears.
“Today” show personality Al Roker wants to flood the airwaves with Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., be it via reality programming or by handing over the reins to the early morning gabfest.
On a day when some on Capitol Hill were busy trying to connect with the animal kingdom, Rep. John Yarmuth had to say goodbye to one of his whiskered buddies.
The merry-makers at Cloture Club want to help you kick off the so-close-you-can-almost-taste-it August recess with a bang — that bang being a whole mess of fancy booze and an incriminating photo booth coupled together for their “Summer Bash” soiree.
For once, all the barking and screeching on Capitol Hill was coming from real animals rather than rabid political types.
The San Francisco Giants’ swing through the White House on Monday teed up a presidential plug for a plump and juicy frank.
You gotta admire ex-Rep. Anthony Weiner’s moxie.
After much poking and prodding, former Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., has finally acquiesced to public calls for him to join the Twittersphere.
The heads of the minority-led Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, Congressional Hispanic Caucus, Congressional Black Caucus and Congressional Progressive Caucus have joined Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., in shepherding lawmakers to a July 30 screening of “Fruitvale Station,” Hollywood’s take on the very public killing of Oscar Grant III.
Yes, Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., made a big splash at Comic-Con last weekend, barreling directly into the belly of the entertainment-starved beast to promote his debut graphic novel, “March.”
We don’t pretend to know what, exactly, former GOP presidential hopefuls Herman Cain and Rep. Michele Bachmann were actually discussing in this candid shot of the two during presumably better days.
Ex-Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., is back in the news again after yet another online paramour came forth with tales of social-media-enabled sexy talk and for-your-eyes-only crotch shots.
SAN DIEGO — Any autobiography should be expected to make the author a little misty-eyed about days gone by.
We grabbed the teaser comic for “Vikings” — The History Channel’s none-too-veiled ploy to tap into the burgeoning “Game of Thrones” viewership — while out at Comic-Con, thinking it might be right up Sen. Charles E. Grassley’s alley.
Tracy Martin, father of Trayvon Martin, the African-American teen slain in Sanford, Fla., by acquitted gunman George Zimmerman, will address members of Congress on Wednesday, sharing his thoughts on the black experience in the United States at the inaugural meeting of the Congressional Caucus on Black Men and Boys.
SAN DIEGO — As magnetic a draw as he proved to be during a 48-hour swing through town, Rep. John Lewis hardly cornered the market on political speech at this year’s Comic-Con.
SAN DIEGO — Just a little warning we spotted while shambling around Comic-Con:
SAN DIEGO — Socially conscious collectors weren’t the only ones psyched to commune with newly minted graphic novelist Rep. John Lewis, who traveled here to Comic-Con 2013 to promote his groundbreaking project, “March.”
SAN DIEGO — In town to celebrate the highly anticipated debut of his graphic novel, “March,” an illustrated account of the civil rights movement in the early 1960s, Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., also laid bare at Comic-Con the grim realities of a life often lived in direct opposition to the status quo.
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