Weather: Welp, it looks like it will literally be raining on Donald Trump’s parade, but that won’t put a damper on this weekend’s festivities. If you’re attending outside events today, bring your rain boots (or an ark), but do be aware that umbrellas and other items are prohibited at Inauguration and …

It might be cold out, but FamousDC and Fireside21 kept Capitol Hill on fire with an open house event welcoming newly elected Members.

If you work on Capitol Hill you see, hear, and overhear many things that the rest of the mortal world isn’t privy to. These privileged professionals that serve our US government acquire a wealth of knowledge that sometimes is just too good not to share. We’ve provided a platform on …

Have you ever wondered which Member of Congress has the best vocabulary? Or the worst? A new interactive map helps to crack the mystery. The map shows the “breadth of vocabulary of each of the nation’s 435 voting Representatives. A darker green color indicates that a Rep has a larger …

Capitol Hill is full of funny, bizarre and otherwise interesting moments that don’t happen anywhere else in this country –  moments happen at least once, if not multiple times a day. Most of us ignore them, because they’ve become so common, while others of us can’t believe they continue to …

Roll Call honors the 26 current Members of Congress who followed his or her father’s footsteps to the Capitol. Nancy Pelosi: “While I was still in the middle of my first campaign for Congress, a tough battle, my father said to me, ‘Just remember — I don’t need a ticket …

Members of Congress have immunity from many routine parking tickets in the District of Columbia, but that doesn’t mean they can’t try to rack up fines. According to a Roll Call survey of vehicles parked on Capitol Hill and at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, as of mid-March, lawmakers were …

Members of Congress are just like you.  Normal. Hard working.  Millionaires. [more money, more …] The economic outlook may still look lousy, but Capitol Hill, at least, doesn’t seem to be feeling much pain: A new study by the Center for Responsive Politics finds that half of all members of …

Raise your hand if you saw this coming from a mile away … Researchers from the University of Maryland who plodded through more than 6,000 Twitter postings by members of Congress have found– surprise! — that politicians spend most of their time on Twitter promoting themselves.  [say it ain’t so] …

And probably giving a few Chief of Staffs heartburn this morning. Politico: Taxpayers pay for reps big screen TVs A leased Cadillac: $557 a month. Chinese food for 230 colleagues: $1,425. A 46-inch Sony flat-screen television: $2,805. Having taxpayers foot the bill: priceless.