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...today's carefully stage-managed Washington, the last thing anyone expects from members of Congress is candor or spontaneity. So perhaps it's not all that surprising that Representative Pete Hoekstra unwittingly triggered a maelstrom of criticism last weekend when he Twittered about his trip to Iraq. "Just landed in Baghdad," the Michigan Republican typed on his BlackBerry, alerting the nearly 3,000 people who have signed up to follow him on the social-networking service of the trip that he and five others, including House minority leader John Boehner, had embarked on. Hoekstra, the top Republican on the House...
...Congress changed since you arrived...
...started I had four staff members and I had four typewriters. If I wanted more, I had to buy them myself. I had one paid trip per year, round-trip. So I brought the family down here about the first of January, and I brought them home when the Congress adjourned, usually about the first of August...
Today, we're Tuesday through Thursday; we can fly home any time. As a result the Congress doesn't get to know each other the way they used...
...recently watched the Twitter accounts of McCaskill, Senator John McCain and Maine Senator Susan Collins for any word on the state of negotiations for the Senate stimulus package. "We're not quite at the point where I can cover 535 characters in 140 characters, but the best Twitterers in Congress are the ones who don't use it as yet another venue for tired talking points but give us a first-person look behind the scenes," says Olivier Knox, a reporter for Agence France-Presse covering Congress who has written stories after being tipped off by Representatives' Tweets...