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I hate tooting my own proverbial horn here, but this is something that ALL FREEPERS need to see! -BCL America, this is what the idiots that we send to Washington think of you. (Thanks to JDawg for posting this link over in Michelle's little world) Notice that you must be logged in from a Capitol Hill (i.e., Congressional) computer to post to this website) Yes, the Metro in July. Honestly, is there some kind of charter that says that you must be 50 lbs overweight, dress in clothes that don't fit, and reek to high hell from all the sweat...

Staff members on Capitol Hill often dream of K Street riches, a payoff for years of late nights, frustrating compromises and, occasionally, bosses who throw things at them. But a few aides are no doubt doing some early pro bono advocacy work as the Senate takes up legislation that could delay those financial rewards. Senators will debate lobbying and ethics reforms this week, after the House last week passed a gift ban and other measures designed to break the bonds between lawmakers and lobbyists — with exceptions made for fundraising. The Senate is likely to join the House in putting...

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: March 10, 2006 Filed at 6:53 a.m. ET UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- Secretary General Kofi Annan faced a staff revolt over his plans to overhaul the United Nations' operations, with the Staff Union overwhelmingly handing him a vote of ''no-confidence'' in the latest setback for the leader. The union, representing more than 5,000 staff at U.N. headquarters, said Thursday it was dismayed at many proposals in Annan's blueprint, especially the call to consider outsourcing a variety of U.N. services from translations to billing. The disappearance of permanent appointments and a new policy on job mobility...

WASHINGTON - Sen. Charles Schumer was one of the first politicians to rail against the evils of identity theft, but lately his signature issue has turned into a singular headache. Schumer, who has led campaigns against Wheaties price-gouging and exorbitant ATM fees, recently sponsored legislation to protect corporate consumer data. He's also been pressuring legal publishers to block snoopers from accessing Social Security numbers online.

If you're like me you've been wondering just what happened to all of those Clinton-Gore staffers and appointees. Well now you can have a definitive resource to look them up, see what they're doing and catch up on all the "old times" Click the link below and you will be able to download a 130 page pdf document full of all the names, addresses, emails and updates on all of our friends and buddies that may have worked for Clinton-Gore: CLICK HERE to DOWNLOAD the pdf file If you're like me and value those old relationships, you need to download...

STEALING FROM STEELE There may be enough brewing in the federal investigation into how senior staff at the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee procured the credit report of Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele to turn this into a full-blown scandal. According to Capitol Hill sources, as well as sources tied to the FBI and the Washington, D.C., U.S. Attorney's office, which is involved in the case, the investigation into "Credit Rate-Gate" could extend beyond Steele to other prospective and current Republican candidates for the U.S. Senate the DSCC were doing opposition research on. "We're hearing that they are looking into whether...

SACRAMENTO - Top deputies to Secretary of State Kevin Shelley enlisted government aides and used state resources to work on his political campaigns in possible violation of state law, according to interviews and documents obtained by the Mercury News. While Shelley was an assemblyman running to be California's top elections official and after the San Francisco Democrat took office last year, aides drove his campaign manager to pick up donations, used state mail to ferry campaign checks to Sacramento and used a government fax machine to transmit political fundraising material, records and interviews show. One regional director cited her political...