Things got a little testy today between President Barack Obama and McClatchy’s Margaret Talev. It sounds like it might be time to get POTUS back on the wagon – although he claims he’s "95%" cured.

Ben Pershing’s Player of the Week: The Anonymous Army on Capitol Hill Flip on C-SPAN late at night, and you may well see a lawmaker giving a lengthy and impassioned speech to a largely empty House chamber. But while the room may look deserted, off-camera and behind the scenes there …

Pershing names Congressman John Conyers “Capitol Briefing Player of the Week” House Democrats left town Thursday for the President’s Day recess having fired two controversial salvos at the Bush administration — approving contempt of Congress citations against White House officials while refusing to renew a terrorism surveillance law. House Judiciary …