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Ten Bucks and a Handshake (opens the original)
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S-3 Group started at the Lucky Bar. John Scofield swears you can still smell the stale beer.He and Jeff Shockey had worked together on the Appropriations Committee — Jeff as staff director, John as the guy complaining it was time for something new. Jeff’s answer was simple: why don’t we do our own thing? They mapped it out over drinks, shook on it and walked into a PNC branch in Chevy Chase the next morning to open an account with about ten dollars. They paid a college kid to draw six logos. The
Katie Harbath Wants You to Panic Responsibly (opens the original)
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The morning after the 2016 election, sat at a red light on Constitution Avenue in a daze. She had gotten home around 3 a.m. and fallen asleep on the couch in her clothes, CNN still on. She didn’t know exactly what was coming for Facebook. She knew something was.That’s where her new book opens. Katie ran Facebook’s global elections work for a decade, through 2016, Cambridge Analytica and the congressional hearings that followed. This week she came back to The Friday Reporter for a second conversa
No Pause Button (opens the original)
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Anne Bradbury was a college freshman the day her aunt was sworn into Congress. She remembers walking the tunnels under the Capitol, the noise and motion of opening day, and deciding right there that this was the life she wanted.Her aunt was Anne Northup of Kentucky — a straight shooter, Bradbury told Brody and me this week, the kind of member who worked harder for her district than anyone gave her credit for. Bradbury studied political science, did the internships, landed in the Bush administrat
Part Two -- Congressional Softball and Young Survival (opens the original)
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And we’re back with Part Two of this week’s Congressional Women’s Softball Game special.If you listened to my first conversation with Senator Shelly Moore Capito and Emily Goodin, you already know this game is about a lot more than what happens on the field.For this second episode, I’m joined by Atalie Ebersole and Mary Ajango, who bring another perspective on the game, the Young Survival Coalition and the community that has grown around this really remarkable Washington tradition.We talk about
The Congressional Softball Game is September 23 (opens the original)
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THE FRIDAY REPORTERThis is a special two-fer edition of The Friday Reporter because sometimes one conversation just isn’t enough.This week, I talked with four women who know the Congressional Women’s Softball Game from very different angles — Senator Shelly Moore Capito (R-WV) and Emily Goodin (New York Post), team captains for the two teams and then Atalie Ebersole, President of the Congressional Softball Game and Mary Ajango, Young Survival Coalition.And if you know anything about this game, y
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