From the desk of Reid Wilson: With the White House Correspondents Association dinner just around the corner, I’m happy to invite you to kick off prom weekend with The Hotline’s Third Annual Political Pursuit, the original epic night of trivia featuring members of Congress, top party strategists and the brightest …

Hotline’s Reid Wilson: The Health Care Outliers The higher the percentage of seniors, the more likely members took heat for their votes in favor. … But members didn’t always follow the political logic. Here are the 10 Dems in districts with the highest percentage of uninsured constituents who voted against …

Chuck Todd: “There’s no worse crime in journalism these days than simply deciding something’s a story because Drudge links to it.”

Who has the most to gain/lose over the next 24 hours? Mike Huckabee and President Obama Reid Wilson: Monday’s Starting Lineup

How do you say goodbye to someone who starts your work day with a laugh and then gets you through the 4 p.m. hour with a little Last Call! humor? Well, it’s hard. FamousDC says good luck to our nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services Secretary of Health …

Move over, Busboys and Poets. The White House East Room is now the hottest poetry spot in town. "The Obamas will host a poetry slam in the East Room of the WH tonight complete with James Earl Jones, spoken word, jazz music, and presumably a few awkward silences." Hotline’s Last …

Only in America can a Congressional reporter take sabbatical in order to track the history of drug use in our country. Luckily, that reporter, Ryan Grim, took a few minutes to answer our Famous 5 questions. We hope you enjoy the interview and support your local author: buy the book. …

He can’t get enough. JoMa: How to Win Tennessee

Blog P.I. brings us the latest on the NMS – CSPAN announcement: I don’t write about clients often. When I do it’s really something, and this is really something: New Media Strategies will be working through the conventions with C-SPAN, perhaps my favorite Beltway news organizations, to run their Convention …

French Version (he does pay homage to the Last Call experts: Danielle Jones, Nora McAlvanah, and Mike Memoli) SHOT: Obama, explaining at a town hall meeting in Georgia on July 8 why children should learn a foreign language: … “It’s embarrassing when Europeans come over here, they all speak English, …

Mercurio calls it first: Homeland Security Sec. Schwarzenegger