Smashing Pumpkins, frontman, Billy Corgan is in court, testifying on Capitol Hill on the House Judiciary Committee. Lobbying for rights that artists should get paid when their songs are being played on the radio. You can see a picture of Billy in court in this article, he doesn’t look too happ...

Last night the Elysian on Capitol Hill was the sight of the Winter Beer Festival. This morning, my tiny studio apartment is the sight of a massive hangover. Metblogs does the heavy lifting so you don’t have to. It was easy to pass up the sampler of guest taps to experience six different versio...

  Senator Dick Durbin , the senior senator from Illinois and the No.2 democrat in the US Senate asked Roland Burris, the junior senator from Illinois  to consider resigning based on all the information that’s emerged in the last few weekes. And guess what Burris did? He politely declined!!...

First it was Tim Geithner , US Treasury Secretary. Now it’s Tom Daschle  Health and Human Services nominee.Thank goodness they aren’t that many posts left . Are Obama nominees trying to take Walter Anderson’s  title away from him?  I know, I know, I’m exaggerating just a ...

At 11:58 yesterday morning, the self-proclaimed "Senate man" finally changed jobs....

Vice President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Hillary Rodham Clinton, two of the most influential members of the Senate, said goodbye to their colleagues yesterday, while the chamber welcomed Illinois's Roland W. Burris, a man it had tried to keep out....

The legendary annual conference of the American Association of Airport Executives in Hawaii -- the aviation event of the year, now wrapping up at the lovely Hapuna Beach Prince Hotel in Kona -- seems to have lost a bit of its luster....

The legendary annual conference of the American Association of Airport Executives in Hawaii -- the aviation event of the year, now wrapping up at the lovely Hapuna Beach Prince Hotel in Kona -- seems to have lost a bit of its luster....

President-elect Barack Obama introduced his nominees to head his national security team on Friday. But now Obama begins a perilous balancing act to fulfill his pledge to make a clean break with the detention and interrogation policies of the Bush administration while still effectively ensuring the.....

On the opening day of Congress, the elevator deposited me on the fifth floor of the Longworth House Office Building, where, as I expected, the parties celebrating hard-fought November election victories had spilled out of the offices and filled the corridor with revelry worthy of New Year's Eve....