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• Wonk'd Dept.: Pouncing Down the Avenue

  Published: August 17, 2007, 4:44 pm

  Tags: Cecilia Sarkozy, Chris Matthews, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Kos, Markos Moulitsas, Nicole Richie, Sightings, Wonk D, Wonk D Dept

  week, Chris Matthews, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Cecilia Sarkozy, Nicole Richie, and Markos Moulitsas were all spotted being various degrees of famous at various places by our spies and operatives. Voyeuristic fun, as always, is after the jump.See someone we’ve heard of somewhere in or near the district? Tell us about it in an email, with

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• Vote Or Die Dept.: Someday, Eleanor Holmes Norton Might Be Slightly Less Useless

  Published: September 12, 2007, 1:52 pm

  Tags: Civil Rights, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Joe Lieberman, Orrin Hatch, Utah, Vote Die Dept, Voting Rights, Washington Dc

  In what world could the partnership of Orrin Hatch, Joe Lieberman, and Tom Davis becalled “bipartisan”? When Eleanor Holmes Norton is getting cozy with them, obv, so she can finally have...

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• Vote Or Die Dept.: Someday, Eleanor Holmes Norton Might Be Slightly Less Useless

  Published: September 12, 2007, 1:52 pm

  Tags: Civil Rights, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Joe Lieberman, Orrin Hatch, Utah, Vote Die Dept, Voting Rights, Washington Dc

  When Eleanor Holmes Norton is getting cozy with them, obv, so she can finally have a real-life “vote” in that crazy House of Representatives. As this is a deal with the devils, it means fucking Utah gets one more representative. Because poor and black people may only be allowed equal rights if white nutjobs in

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• Voucher System Said to Put Students at Risk

  Published: October 11, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Voucher, System, Said, Put, Students, Risk, Washington Dc, Deborah Gist, Gregory M Cork, U S Department Of Education, Washington Scholarship Fund, D C State, Ohio, Wisconsin, The Washington Post Company, Adrian Fenty, Dick Durbin, Edward M Kennedy, Eleanor Holmes Nor

  A voucher program designed to send low-income children in the District to better-performing private schools has allowed some students to take classes in unsuitable learning environments and from teachers without bachelor's degrees, according to a government report.

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• Scouting a New Home For Homeland Security

  Published: October 14, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Scouting, New, Home, For, Homeland, Security, Washington Dc, Michael Mcgill, U S General Services Administration, George W Bush, Thomas Luebke, U S Commission Of Fine Arts, Adrian Fenty, Anacostia River, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Harriet Tregoning, John Clark, Richard Moe

  Federal officials will seek approval starting this week for plans to build a giant headquarters for the Department of Homeland Security, a $3 billion undertaking that would transform a dilapidated but historic site in Anacostia.

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• Lawmakers Urge the Pentagon to Delay Furloughs

  Published: December 13, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Lawmakers, Urge, The, Pentagon, Delay, Furloughs, The Pentagon, Jim Moran, Bryan Whitman, John Sarbanes, U S Marine Corps, U S Congressional Research Service, Dave Obey, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Pete Geren, Stephen Barr, The White House, Afghanistan, Iraq, U S Department O

  House Majority Leader Steny H . Hoyer (D-Md.) promised yesterday that Defense Department civil service employees would not be laid off because of a budget dispute between the White House and Congress.

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• Lawmakers Urge the Pentagon to Delay Furloughs

  Published: December 13, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Lawmakers, Urge, The, Pentagon, Delay, Furloughs, The Pentagon, Jim Moran, Bryan Whitman, John Sarbanes, U S Marine Corps, U S Congressional Research Service, Dave Obey, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Pete Geren, Stephen Barr, The White House, Afghanistan, Iraq, U S Department O

  House Majority Leader Steny H . Hoyer (D-Md.) promised yesterday that Defense Department civil service employees would not be laid off because of a budget dispute between the White House and Congress.

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• Stay the Equal Course on Raises, They Tell Bush

  Published: January 31, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Stay, The, Equal, Course, Raises, They, Tell, Bush, Steny Hoyer, George W Bush, The White House, Jim Moran, Paul Denett, Albert Wynn, Chris Van Hollen, Elijah Cummings, Frank Wolf, John Sarbanes, U S Postal Service, Dutch Ruppersberger, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Michael Hayde

  The push-and-pull over the 2009 federal pay raise is underway.

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• Hitting Merit Pay With a Fair-Play Standard

  Published: February 14, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Hitting, Merit, Pay, With, Fair Play, Standard, Danny Davis, U S Securities And Exchange Commission, Internal Revenue Service, Barack Obama, Diego Ruiz, National Treasury Employees Union, Charles Tiefer, Dan Sobien, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Hillary Clinton, J Russell Geo

  Rep. Danny K. Davis (D-Ill.), chairman of the House federal workforce subcommittee, is increasingly skeptical of pay-for-performance systems in the federal government. He's also a little frustrated.

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• Government Buildings to Get Added Protection

  Published: March 5, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Government, Buildings, Get, Added, Protection, Michael Chertoff, U S Postal Service, John E Potter, David Price, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Robert Byrd, U S Bureau Of Immigration And Customs Enforcement, U S Department Of Homeland Security, U S Government Accountabilit

  The police force in charge of protecting most federal buildings, recently criticized as understaffed and demoralized, will soon add officers.

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• Government Buildings to Get Added Protection

  Published: March 5, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Government, Buildings, Get, Added, Protection, Michael Chertoff, U S Postal Service, John E Potter, David Price, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Robert Byrd, U S Bureau Of Immigration And Customs Enforcement, U S Department Of Homeland Security, U S Government Accountabilit

  The police force in charge of protecting most federal buildings, recently criticized as understaffed and demoralized, will soon add officers.

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• Scouting a New Home For Homeland Security

  Published: October 14, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Scouting, New, Home, For, Homeland, Security, Washington Dc, Michael Mcgill, U S General Services Administration, George W Bush, Thomas Luebke, U S Commission Of Fine Arts, Adrian Fenty, Anacostia River, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Harriet Tregoning, John Clark, Richard Moe

  Federal officials will seek approval starting this week for plans to build a giant headquarters for the Department of Homeland Security, a $3 billion undertaking that would transform a dilapidated but historic site in Anacostia.

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• OMB Chief Orders Tighter Controls Over Credit Cards

  Published: April 17, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Omb, Chief, Orders, Tighter, Controls, Over, Credit, Cards, Jim Nussle, Darrell Issa, Carolyn Maloney, Henry Waxman, U S Office Of Management And Budget, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Stephen Barr, Apple Ipod, U S Congressional Budget Office, U S Department Of Agriculture, U S Go

  The memo is out. As promised in the aftermath of a congressional audit showing misuse of government credit cards, the Office of Management and Budget has directed federal agencies to tighten their controls.

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• Plans Wilt at National Arboretum

  Published: April 26, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Plans, Wilt, National, Arboretum, Sally Boasberg, William Inglee, B Y Morrison, Beltsville, Thomas Elias, Anacostia River, U S Department Of Agriculture, Bladensburg, Brooksville, Dan Stark, Earl Blumenauer, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Eric Price, Glenn Dale, Harry Thomas Jr

  It began last weekend and will continue for five more, Washington's other springtime blossom festival. At the U.S. National Arboretum in Northeast Washington, 130,000 people will show up to luxuriate in the rhododendrons, crab apples and early roses before Memorial Day.

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• TSP Wants Agencies to Automatically Enroll New Employees

  Published: April 30, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Tsp, Wants, Agencies, Automatically, Enroll, New, Employees, Gregory T Long, Elijah Cummings, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Danny Davis, Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board, National Federation Of Federal Employees

  There's nothing like the power of inertia. A substantial number of federal employees never get around to joining the Thrift Savings Plan, a 401(k)-type savings program for retirement. Now, the TSP hopes to change the rules, so that new employees would be automatically enrolled by their agencies.

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