Thanks JMart!

Another spring training in the books.
Chicago Cubs⁩ are on their way!

Dagnabbit, that's too much.

I just wrote about the House's 'Great Resignation,' members who quitting midterm.
With Rep. Ken Buck out today, that's 6 who left early. And now Rep. Gallagher Press Office says he's quitting, mid-term, next month.

Can't overstate how awful the House is now. Members hate it.

Happy 45th B-Day to C-SPAN and thanks to all who work there to 'channel' Congress. We wouldn't be able to do our jobs without you. This is your birthday song, it doesn't last too (you know the rest.)

Dept of Tourism

Those were the days!

Go Mom!

'My name is Karla Jacinto and today I have a voice. But for more than 4 years of my life from the age of 12 as a little girl whose mother had thrown her out on the streets open to anyone wanting to take advantage of my vulnerabilities I fell prey to a professional pimp'
5/14/2015

only way senators show up to work on a Friday is by force

Periodic reminder: there is only 1 qualification to be Senate GOP whip.
The name Jon/John.

Kyl: 2008-12

Cornyn: 2013-18

Thune: 2019-24

Barrasso: 2025-??

Last non-John was a guy named Trent. Who did the job in 2007 and left for K Street.

Thanks Al!

ATTENTION MEMBERS OF HOUSE AND SENATE AND SPEECHWRITERS:

Planning to incorporate a reference to leap day in your Congress floor remarks today?

Try topping Rep. Bob Livingston (R-LA) on February 29, 1996 -- he set the bar high:

Gooooood morning!!!!

Senate advances $95B foreign aid supplemental over last filibuster, 66-33. Final passage will happen at some point you may be asleep

Comes on top of retirement announcement by CathyMcMorrisRodgers, another well-respected Republican. This is all bad news for the House

With Kate Middleton and King Charles out for medical procedures, Patrick McHenry is now acting King and acting Princess of Wales.

When the GOP narrowly took control of the House last year, Earl Blumenauer made a bold prediction: Democrats had a slight chance of reclaiming power before the next election--through sheer attrition. That no longer looks so far fetched. ⁦Carl Hulse⁩ nytimes.com/2024/01/16/us/…

Looking forward to what's sure to be a fascinating conversation at Politics and Prose on Wednesday with the great David M. Herszenhorn about his new book 'The Dissident,' about Alexey Navalny and the smothering of opposition in Putin's Russia. w/Susan Glasser

Michelle Steel, a Biden district Republican, waited nearly a year to sign onto a national abortion ban — doing so on Friday morning, only after The New York Times notified her of a story documenting her change in position nytimes.com/2024/01/12/us/…