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No Lady Gaga at this non-event
September 5, 2010So maybe Kent Conrad (D-N.D.), 62, can't be as hip as Senate colleague and Lady Gaga fan Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.), 86. Doesn't mean he can't raise money, too.
Frank Lautenberg, gaga for Gaga
September 5, 2010Hurry! It's an event absolutely not to be missed. And, according to an e-mail invite we received Wednesday afternoon, there are "ONLY 3 Tickets Left!"
In the Loop: U.S. lawmakers visit Haiti and its president . . . that guy
September 5, 2010As Loop Fans know, many jaunts by congressional delegations (codels) overseas are not much more than taxpayer-paid vacations. But many others are actually working trips. (There's a handy guide on how to tell which is which.)
At 50, Cuban trade embargo is not aging well
September 5, 2010 The half-century-old Cuban trade embargo has seen better days. For its first 30 years, when the Castro crowd was in cahoots with the Soviets -- even welcomed nukes 90 miles from Florida -- the embargo enjoyed widespread support.
Broadcasting board decides Voice of America can peruse WikiLeak documents
September 5, 2010Some new members of the Broadcasting Board of Governors were most upset by a column item last Wednesday noting that the IT and security folks at the International Broadcasting Bureau had instructed Voice of America employees to not read or e-mail any of the WikiLeaks material on their government computers (bit of a blow to original reporting).
AL KAMENIn the Loop
September 5, 2010Al Kamen is away. The In the Loop column will resume when he returns.
Gift for North Pole: Say it with sewers
September 5, 2010Christmas in July for Santa? Tucked away in the fiscal 2011 appropriations bill for the Interior Department and the Environmental Protection Agency is a $1 million earmark, inserted by Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska), to be given to the "City of North Pole for industrial force sewer main."
Who will refudiate the displaced foreign travelers?
September 5, 2010 The ever-evolving English language is expanding at warp speed these days.
Rita and John Jenrette: Where are they now?
September 5, 2010A Loop Fan called attention to an article Friday in the "Greater Homes" section of the New York Times that began:
Will Jack Lew be second time lucky?
September 5, 2010If confirmed for a second tour as director of the Office of Management and Budget, Jack Lew will join a very small group of officials who have held the same senior agency position in two administrations. And the history of second acts, in politics as in other endeavors, doesn't necessarily augur well.
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