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Defense policy analysis, commentary and discussion.Hannah Hess follows floor action in the House and Senate as a legislative researcher for Congressional Quarterly and occasionally contributes to Roll Call.
Hannah’s political reporting experience includes two statehouse bureaus, and the early stages of the 2012 presidential campaign trail. Prior to joining CQ, she covered the Virginia General Assembly, the campaign for the 2012 Iowa caucuses and the Illinois General Assembly. Her work has appeared in the St. Louis Post Dispatch, the Washington Examiner and the Omaha World-Herald. She also interned for what is now CQ Roll Call in 2008, working for Roll Call’s GalleryWatch legislative tracking service that was integrated into CQ in 2009. Originally from Illinois, Hannah holds two degrees from the University of Illinois — a bachelor’s degree in media studies and a master’s degree in public affairs reporting.
Before skipping town on Thursday night, the Senate confirmed Davita Vance-Cooks to serve as public printer of the Government Printing Office, a position she’s held on an acting basis since Jan. 3, 2012.
Immigration protests that have blocked traffic in front of House office buildings Thursday will continue throughout the afternoon, organizers told CQ Roll Call.
Perhaps inspired by the bygone days of Seersucker Thursday, members of the House GOP appear to be testing out a new weekday dress code: Casual Wednesday.
Capitol Police arrested six protesters in the Hart Senate Office Building on Tuesday, shortly after 12:30 p.m.
Karen Paulson, 68, a longtime aide to Speaker John A. Boehner and several other Republican members of Congress, died on July 26.
The House is stepping up its cybersecurity as members prepare for the August recess.
Retiring House Press Gallery Superintendent Jerry Gallegos joined the gallery in 1969, just as tumultuous times in the United States were dramatically shaking the foundation of political journalism.
The Capitol community is bidding a low-key farewell to former Rep. Lindy Boggs, D-La., a women’s rights champion who died of natural causes on July 27 at her Chevy Chase, Md., home. She was 97.
More than two decades of work on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee has helped earn Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., a plum new assignment in which she will play a major role in rewriting national surface transportation policy.
Lawmakers on the House panel that oversees the D.C. government quickly and unanimously approved a bill Wednesday that lets the District set its own fiscal calendar and spend locally raised tax dollars without first getting congressional permission.
Proponents of greater budget autonomy for Washington, D.C., breathed a sigh of relief this week as they marked the end of Congress’ 35-day review period for a referendum giving the D.C. Council more control over local funds.
Legislation to scrap architect Frank Gehry’s plan for a memorial to Dwight D. Eisenhower, overhaul the commission in charge of the project and select a new design would cost $17 million over the next five years, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
The District of Columbia Fire Department dispatched two trucks to the National Postal Museum at 2 Massachusetts Ave. NE about 4:45 p.m. Tuesday after smoke was spotted rising from a construction site on the south side of the building, according to an officer at the scene. First responders extinguished the fire at the museum within minutes. (Hannah Hess/CQ Roll Call) No one was hurt, and the fire was extinguished within minutes, the officer said. Police…
Leave your Bryce Harper jerseys at home for Tuesday’s Nats-Diamondbacks showdown. Supporters of Frager’s Hardware are encouraging attendees to sport the Capitol Hill store’s iconic blue and orange T-shirts instead.
Brian Weitz, more widely known as “the Geologist” of Animal Collective, spent 2004 researching oceans, fisheries and the Coast Guard for a Senate Commerce subcommittee.
During Senate debate of the motion to proceed to immigration legislation drafted by the “gang of eight,” Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Ill., suggested he’s been in so many Capitol Hill gangs that it “might be time to get some tattoos.”
During a speech on the House floor Thursday afternoon, Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., lamented the “horrendous, hot and unusual” four-alarm fire that engulfed Frager’s Hardware on Wednesday night.
Rep. Billy Long, R-Mo., waved the 8-inch blade of a the handmade custom chef’s knife before his eyes on Saturday night and whistled, attempting to command the attention of Taste of the South’s VIP crowd at the gala’s inaugural live auction in the lower level of DAR Constitution Hall.
Online dating app Hinge declares the Senate’s workforce more attractive than the House’s, but both employ some of the most attractive people in the District, according to user ratings.
When Sandra Day O’Connor strode through the curtains to take her seat on the Supreme Court bench in 1981, the Arizona cowgirl became the first womanto sit on the nation’s highest court. Visiting the chamber on Monday, she saw threewomen on the bench: Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan.
Local activists trying to win budget autonomy for the District plan to raise funds — along with plenty of pints of DC Brau — Tuesday night during their inaugural DC Budget Freedom Happy Hour at Meridian Pint (3400 11th St. NW).
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