National Journal’s Peter Bell answers important beltway questions: Hill People: Who Are They and Where Did They Come From? Fun facts from the infographics: Republican staffers tend to live in Virgina. And most Democratic staffers live in D.C. Georgetown University has the most alumni working in senior positions on Capitol …

It’s a big day for two friends of FamousDC.  Chris Frates is jumping to the National Journal, while Meredith Shiner is taking her talents to Roll Call.  Congrats to both.

CQ Roll Call proved victorious at today’s Diet Coke charity capture the flag competition at the Georgetown Law Center.  According to attendees, CQ Roll Call smoked both National Journal and a team of Congressional staffers to win $10,000 for a charity of their choosing.  A dozen or so reporters played …

h/t Taylor West

Bara Vaida: Association of Associations Changes Its Name

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

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 …

Thanks to National Journal’s Under the Influence , we now know the Twitterview didn’t die John McCain and George Stephanopoulos Sara Jerome: What EPolitics Founder Learned From Obama When Epolitics.com founder Colin Delany describes himself, he sounds more like a surgeon than a blogger, devoted to "dissecting the craft of …

In an effort to put paper phone books completely out of business, National Journal – in collaboration with Jive – JESS3 and New Media Strategies has launched an interactive professional online network called 3121. [3121 is the phone extension of the Capitol switchboard] In a nutshell, 3121 is a dynamic …

Sometimes Nora and team nail one and then you have to spend the afternoon cleaning up coffee off your keyboard. Yes, we drink coffee through the afternoon. Try it. From yesterday’s Last Call: SWIZZLE STICKS • Sen. Jeff Sessions came out of his office today and predicted that America is …

From Wake Up Call: New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd recently visited Twitter’s HQ in San Francisco to find out if the "inventors of Twitter were as annoying as their invention."  [indeed]

Earlier we posted a flattering picture of McFrankenstein, then a bit later, Marc Ambinder, a Harvard graduate and National Journal associate editor, posted the same thing.  In our opinion, that makes us wicked smart.

Drum roll, please… None other than Presidential hopeful, Barack Obama… Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., was the most liberal senator in 2007, according to National Journal‘s 27th annual vote ratings. The insurgent presidential candidate shifted further to the left last year in the run-up to the primaries, after ranking as the …