By
Jonathan Strong
| Midnight Rep. Joe Crowley (N.Y.) has been quietly assembling an A-list team in his unannounced bid for vice chairman of the Democratic Caucus.
By
Daniel Newhauser
| Midnight With nearly half of all House Republican committee chairmanships up for grabs next year, Members have started maneuvering to raise their profiles ahead of a round of spirited gavel races.
Rules of the Game
By
Eliza Newlin Carney
| Midnight As secret political spending escalates in the final weeks before Election Day, it's not too early to ask: What can be done to bring "dark money" out from the shadows?
K Street Files
By
Janie Lorber, Kate Ackley
| Midnight One in every $8 spent lobbying Congress and federal agencies comes from foreign governments. If there's one fact that sticks with readers of "The Foreign Policy Auction," author Ben Freeman hopes it's that.
Shop Talk
By
Kyle Trygstad
| Midnight With five weeks until Election Day, the biggest news in the campaign consulting world is the Republican National Committee and Florida GOP firing a consulting firm that had been chosen to help register voters.
Politics
By
Stuart Rothenberg
| Midnight Conservative thinker William Kristol and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee usually don't see things the same way, but they seem to agree that the House of Representatives is "in play."
Opinion
By Morton M. Kondracke
| Midnight As one of the tiny sliver of highly attentive voters who are still undecided, here's where I stand: If Mitt Romney and Barack Obama don't begin showing me something positive in this week's debate, I'm writing in Alan Simpson.
Opinion
By C. Simon Davidson
| Midnight Q: I am a House staffer with a question about the outcome of the ethics investigation of Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.). As I understand it, the Ethics Committee concluded that Waters' chief of staff violated House rules but that Waters herself did not. I had thought that Members were generally considered responsible for ethics violations committed by their employees. How is it possible then that Waters' chief of staff could have committed a violation without Waters committing one, too?
Around the Hill
By Gail Sullivan
| Midnight In Arena Stage's production of "Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins," screen and stage icon Kathleen Turner thoroughly captures nationally syndicated columnist Molly Ivins' feisty persona, her wide smile and the cadence of her quick-witted Texas drawl.
Hill Climbers
By
Emily Cahn
| Midnight Michael Shank, the returning communications director and senior policy adviser in Rep. Mike Honda's (D-Calif.) office, was raised in an Amish-Mennonite community in Kidron, Ohio, where the ideas of helping the downtrodden, sustainable development and nonviolence were instilled in him, all values Shank says he shares with Honda.
By
Emma Dumain
After a year of stops and starts trying to move D.C. budget autonomy legislation through Congress, local activists and their allies are pursuing a new strategy to give the District a freer hand with its finances.
