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...part of the first class of D.C. Scholars, Holloway spent last summer researching local issues, particularly child abuse, with the White House Domestic Policy Council. Holloway joined one of her eight D.C. Scholars classmates, Clayton Armstrong of the University of Arizona, at the Capitol last night...
...Does the press focus exclusively on process? The media are consumed with a proverbial turning-of-the-page, the tension between the White House and Democrats on Capitol Hill and the perils-of-Barack drama. Obama has to get the postspeech coverage to evaluate the substance of his proposals and his thematic vision of the country, rather than just focus on his droopy poll numbers and the loss of that Massachusetts Senate seat...
...namely that 55 percent of Americans now feel that the current bill should be altered to garner more Republican support. Reworking the bill does not mean discarding it entirely. However, it is clear that the public wants to see an end to the fierce partisanship of the deliberation on Capitol Hill. Accordingly, the Democrats should honor the will of the people by opening up the legislation to Republican ideas to achieve a bill with the bipartisan support to ward off a Senate filibuster...
...Blue Colour of the Sky, were viewable on YouTube - but not sharable. Lead singer Damian Kulash posted a lengthy letter to fans on the band's website, explaining the difficulty. It's a symptom of a struggling music industry, Kulash wrote: like many record companies, the band's label, Capitol, feels obliged to keep tight rein on its artists' music videos as one of their few remaining revenue streams. His letter soon went viral, as a clearheaded explanation of the problems the music industry faces. Kulash sat down with TIME to talk about OK Go's videos, the backlash...
...Tuesday a state court will begin picking a jury in the trial of former House Majority Whip Mike Veon, a Democrat from western Pennsylvania, and three former party staffers, who are accused of running a secret campaign office in the Capitol building. The defendants are among 25 people from both parties indicted by state Attorney General Tom Corbett, who started the investigation three years ago, initially focusing on taxpayer money used to give bonuses to Democratic staffers working on campaign projects on official time. (See the top 10 scandals...