From WaPo: “A bipartisan Twitter fest is scheduled to break out on Capitol Hill this week as the Obama administration and Congress venture into an area where they may find agreement: escaping the quagmire over transportation. “With the May 31 expiration of transportation funding nearing, Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx and …

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Meet Katie Harbath. Meet Mindy Finn. Katie is an Associate Manager at Facebook and Mindy works for Twitter. Two of social media’s leading ladies, Harbath and Finn have been proven industry experts for years. They’re also a couple of the nicest people you’ll meet in DC. Before their work at Facebook and Twitter, Katie and Mindy worked together at the RNC. Afterwards, they went their separate ways, each to head up digital operations for top presidential contenders. Katie worked for Mayor Rudy Giuliani while Mindy headed to Team Romney. Years later, they’re still on different teams, but have enormous respect for each other. With Facebook and Twitter at full-force this election cycle, we figured we’d reunite the two for a social media showdown.

Oh, the things they could teach us. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2012 3:32 PM To: Subject: GSA Training and Expo is Next Week! Make Sure to Bring Everything You Need. If you’ve already registered for this year’s GSA Training and Expo, thank you! We’re glad you’ll be …

Ten years ago you were considered an important Capitol hill staffer if you had a blackberry. Today you’re part of the in crowd if you’re rocking a government issued iPad. [Toys.gov] Lawmakers are increasingly using taxpayer funds to buy their congressional staff iPads, the Apple-made electronic tablets that cost hundreds …

We don’t know whether we should be pissed about this, or upset we didn’t think of it first. [to each his own] Senator Questions Benefits to ‘Adult Baby’ Coburn sees possible fraud A key senator has asked the Social Security Administration to investigate how people who live their lives role-playing …

So much for thinking your leftovers were safe. [what’s for lunch?] From Fark: *knock* *knock* Hello, I’m here to take census information. Anybody home? *knock* *knock* Hello? Oh well, I’ll walk on in and collect data anyway since we’re allowed We’re not quite sure how they estimate the number of …

Speaker Nancy likely wasn’t expecting this question: “Why are there so many probs with the govt?” @brikeilarcnn Bring your kids to work day on the Hill. Spkr Pelosi takes questions.

Dear Future Students of Journalism:  This is how you write a headline. Arroyo asked: Let next president sign peace deal with MILF North Cotabato Vice Governor Emmanuel Piñol urged President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on Tuesday to let the next president sign the peace agreement with the MILF so it could be …

In an effort to spend taxpayer money wisely, the U.S. Government has taken to fortune cookie writing [and predicting the future]. As part of a $320 million media campaign, the Census Bureau has included messages in 2 million fortune cookies encouraging participation in the 2010 Census. The cookies are being …

Let’s see if we have this right: 1942: The US Navy seized Treasure Island from the City and County of San Francisco for the sum of $1. Yesterday: Mayor Gavin Newsom announced the purchase of Treasure Island from the US Navy for $105 million. Now, we aren’t math wizards here, …

David Almacy : Anyone else find it odd there’s nothing on http://www.whitehouse.gov re: today’s Jobs Summit? I did find a Thank You page http://ow.ly/IdDz UPDATE: The site now has the forum prominently displayed. UPDATE II: As of 12 PM, Job Summit video was prominently displayed on the front of WH.gov, …

If this is true, it’s depressingly humorous: The newspaper industry is suffering "market failure" and the government will need to help preserve serious journalism essential to democracy, an influential US congressman said Wednesday. [what the hell is serious journalism?] It gets even more depressing… "Eventually, government is going to have …

This email is going around the Senate.  Staff assistants rejoice. The Senate voice mail system is not working because of all of the health care calls to the Senate right now. The calls are blowing the system out. Not much they can do about it – we’ll just have to …

It’s good to have friends. A tiny car company backed by former Vice President Al Gore has just gotten a $529 million U.S. government loan to help build a hybrid sports car in Finland that will sell for about $89,000.  [affordable] It’s also the first time the word tiny has …