Pershing: NRCC to Reveal Embezzlement Details The National Republican Congressional Committee will reveal today the results of a pricey forensic audit of its books in the wake of a massive alleged embezzlement scheme by its former treasurer, Christopher Ward. Bresnahan: Ward may have taken as much as $725K from NRCC …

Ben Pershing started a new feature where he talks to the top communications staffers for the Rs and Ds in the House and Senate. Which staffer will first take this opportunity to go Back to the Future? It looks like House Minority Leader Boehner’s spokesman Michael Steel is up to …

It looks like more DC political reporters are using Social Networking sites to track down sources, look-up background information on staffers, and investigate ex-girlfriends. We know what you’re thinking – and yes, you need to log onto Facebook and take down that drunken beer bong picture of you at Dewey …

Ben Pershing’s Player of the Week: The Anonymous Army on Capitol Hill Flip on C-SPAN late at night, and you may well see a lawmaker giving a lengthy and impassioned speech to a largely empty House chamber. But while the room may look deserted, off-camera and behind the scenes there …

Pershing’s Player of the Week: Stephanie Tubbs-Jones

Pershing names Congressman John Conyers “Capitol Briefing Player of the Week” House Democrats left town Thursday for the President’s Day recess having fired two controversial salvos at the Bush administration — approving contempt of Congress citations against White House officials while refusing to renew a terrorism surveillance law. House Judiciary …

–but at least reporters, Members, Senators and Congressional staff finally agreed when it officially expired. Stories about the law were all over the map in describing when it would expire. In the interests of full transparency, this Capitol Briefing item said “Friday night” and this Washington Post story said “Friday,” …

Politico (Andrews), “the so-called “Chesapeake Primary” isn’t until Feb. 12 Politico (JoMa), “Shouldn’t it be called the Chesapeake Primary?” Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (during an interview with WaPo’s Pershing), “Some people might want to call it the ‘Chesapeake Primary.’”

Pershing: Convention Party Do’s and Don’ts Bresnahan: Senate splits with House on ‘lawmaker tributes’ at national conventions

They’re hard at work per usual. UPDATE: Patrick O’Connor sheds more light

Pershing: House GOP Backs Away From Real Earmark Moratorium

Pershing: MLB Spreads the Wealth on the Hill Major League Baseball PAC had a busy 2007, taking in $198,000 and handing out $168,000 Over the course of the year, MLB gave money to the election campaigns of 13 Senate Democrats, 10 Senate Republicans, 15 House Democrats and 10 House Republicans. …