Heard on the Hill

On Day 2 of the DNC convention, a millennial friendly star-studded crowd came out for Hillary Clinton.  

Whether millennials themselves or big time celebrities to the under 35 crowd of Americans, the actors and singers on Tuesday appealed to Clinton’s young voters.  

Philadelphia last hosted the Democratic National Convention in 1948 and the Republican National Convention in 2000. Who were the chairs of each of those conventions?  

A) Scoop Jackson / Phil Gramm  

Just on Day One alone, the Democratic National Convention seems to be drawing a bigger slate of stars than last week's entire Republican lineup. While Donald Trump brought corporate executives and casino moguls to Cleveland, Hillary Clinton is bringing Hollywood  to Philadelphia.  

Opening the night was a musical act, R&B group Boyz II Men, who were the third artists ever to replace themselves at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 charts. They also have one of the best-selling albums ever released by a R&B group. And yes, "Dancing with the Stars" fans like them too, after tenor Wanya Morris placed fourth in the show’s 22nd season.  

Dave W. Smith is taking some of Debbie Wasserman Schultz's tough day off her hands. But not by choice.  

Smith, whose Twitter profile  says he is from Silicon Valley, is receiving mean tweets intended for the outgoing chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee  after the content of some internal committee emails were released by Wikileaks.  

You're with her but not actually with her in Philadelphia? Still writing constituent letters while your boss is at the convention? Good news for you, you’re not alone.    

Here is the HOH calendar of Democratic convention fun this week in D.C..

Kyrsten Sinema is a morning person.

That’s often hard when the House has late votes, like it did before the August recess.

While members of Congress had some downtime over recess, a few learned about Brexit directly from members of Parliament across the pond.

British parliamentarians are each year matched with members of Congress, whom they shadow as part of the State Department’s British-American Parliamentary Group project.  

At this "Irish wake," the beer was poured, toasts were made and stories were told around a coffin draped in black silk.  A white floral wreath mourned the deceased, a ribbon wrapped around its center read: "RIP GOP."  

Republicans gathered at the Dubliner, D.C.'s popular Irish tavern in the shadow of the Capitol, to mourn their party, now the province of a brash outsider who has demolished what they knew and loved in politics.  

With Queen asking Donald Trump not to use "We Are the Champions" again, we asked our readers what song the Republican nominee should choose as he walks out to give his acceptance speech Thursday.  

Frankly, people were a little negative.  

In this week's Trivia Tuesday, we're going all convention as Republicans convene in Cleveland, before the Democrats gather next week in Philadelphia.

In 1964, Republican presidential nominee Sen. Barry Goldwater of Arizona picked a House member as his running mate.

Merrick Garland 's nomination to the Supreme Court is set to become the longest ever without action by the Senate.  

On Wednesday, it will be 126 days since President Barack Obama selected the D.C. appeals court jurist to succeed Antonin Scalia, who died in February.