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The article offers information on the potential of Washington to host the 2024 Olympics and the possible venues where the different sporting events will be hosted.

The article reports on the impact of changing demographics on the upcoming election for mayor in Washington.

The article focuses on the miseries being faced by Washington in August 2013 which are well documented by humidity and the absence of friends and neighbors who are erpairing the Chesapeake Bay.

The article focuses on the fiscal policy issue in Washington, D.C. regarding the unending discussion of the U.S. legislative body on the congressional tax agreement. It states that the increase in government spending and tax resulted into a financial drop, threatening the nations finances. It mentions that the fiscal and budget issues have created spaces between the democrats and republicans and that the long duration of debate on the states' fiscal problem has affected the life of Americans.

The article reports on the effort undertaken by the Democratic and Republican leaders at the U.S. Senate to come up with a new tax deal on January 4, 2013. It mentions that the new tax deal is aimed to minimize large tax increases and to prevent the worsening of economic crisis. It adds that both Senators Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Harry Reid are working for the measure.

The article focuses on the return of Wisconsin Representative Paul D. Ryan to his post as the U.S. House Budget Committee chairman after his unsuccessful run for vice president to deal the prevention of spending cuts and tax increases by the end of 2012. It states that not all Republicans are charmed with Ryan because he endangered some exasperation of Republican members. The article also discusses Ryan's distaste with the fiscal theories of U.S. President Barack Obama.

The article focuses on the decision of U.S. House Speaker of Nancy Pelosi to return as the Democratic Party leader in the U.S. House on November 14, 2012. Pelosi states that he decided to remain in the position to help more women be elected in the politics and maintain the health care law she passed in 2009. The article also relates that Pelosi's decision was strongly encouraged by Democrats.

The article offers the insights of Democrats on the proposal of Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential nominee, on raising taxes on rich people by income tax deductions. Senator Kent Conrad of North Dakota says that part of Romney's proposal is people reflecting on the proposal of U.S. Barack Obama. Texas Representative Jeb Hensarling adds that the worst time to work together on a bipartisan basis is before an election and the best time to work on a bipartisan basis is after an election.

The article focuses on House Speaker John A. Boehner's statement to his party regarding their loss in the 2012 elections. Boehner says that although the Republicans may still dominate the House and continue to oppose increase in tax rates, they should avoid arguments that marked during the past two years. It adds that Boehner needs to exploit the portion of House Republicans that want to ignore a deal to avoid abrupt tax increases.

The article reports on the call of several political candidates to implement tighter rules on negative political advertisements (ads) and campaign spending in the U.S. While Democrats have long denounced a 2010 Supreme Court decision that opened unlimited spending on ads, some Republicans are growing more disenchanted with the system that has allowed the barrage of ads. Also highlighted are the political attacks against Congressman Dan Lungren.

WASHINGTON -- Lawmakers are not usually eager to get back to Washington after a weekend in their districts, especially during campaign season. But Representative Michele Bachmann boarded a flight from Minnesota on Sunday night -- even though the House will not meet until Tuesday -- to make sure she would not miss the Washington moment she has been excitedly anticipating, the Supreme Court ruling on President Obama's health care law. ''The decision on Obamacare goes well beyond health care,'' Mrs. Bachmann, a Republican and a vocal opponent of the law, wrote in an e-mail. It ''will determine whether or not the court believes the government has a right to mandate that Americans buy a product or service, a direct impact on our freedom and liberty.'' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

WASHINGTON -- Moments after an unusual fiery appeal from Speaker John A. Boehner, the House ignored a veto threat from President Obama and voted 215 to 195 on Friday to prevent a doubling of student loan rates. The bill, which would strip $5.9 billion from a program within the health care law to pay to keep rates on subsidized undergraduate loans at 3.4 percent, is all but certain to fail in the Senate, where lawmakers have put together their own measure to keep the rate from reverting to 6.8 percent by closing tax loopholes for some wealthy business owners. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

WASHINGTON -- President Obama is finding himself increasingly boxed in on the Keystone pipeline fight as more Congressional Democrats are joining Republicans in backing the project, which has strong labor support and could generate significant numbers of jobs in economically hard-hit states. On Wednesday, the House passed a short-term transportation bill that included a provision that would pave the way for the construction of the next stage of the oil pipeline, a measure that Mr. Obama has said he would veto. The bill passed 293 to 127, with 69 Democrats supporting it. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON -- It is a remarkable moment when Congressional Democrats and Republicans turn their scorn from each other and join forces to focus it on someone else. But that is precisely what happened on Monday when members of both parties on a Congressional oversight committee grilled the former head and other officials from the General Services Administration over profligate spending at a conference held in Las Vegas in 2010, which included taxpayer-financed hotel suites, tuxedos and Italian wine, and an appearance by a clown. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

WASHINGTON -- Just six months ago, having their names uttered in the same sentence as President Obama's was something many Congressional Democrats could have lived without. But with the economy slowly crawling back to life, a shift in messaging at the White House and a Republican push on social issues, Democrats are accepting -- and in some cases openly embracing -- the inevitable yoking of their campaigns to Mr. Obama's as election-year activities accelerate. On Capitol Hill, Democrats have begun to mention Mr. Obama more often and have gone out of their way to publicly back some of his proposals. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON -- With each party claiming that it had pocketed an election-year victory, Congress on Friday voted to extend payroll tax cuts and unemployment benefits and sent the legislation to President Obama, ending a contentious policy fight that left lawmakers with the political bruises to show for it. House Republican leaders were forced to turn to Democrats for passage; of the 293 who voted for the roughly $140 billion package, 147 were Democrats, carrying the proposal over the top Friday morning with the acquiescence of almost as many Republicans. It was only the second House bill in the 112th Congress to be split roughly in half along party lines; the other was a spending bill. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON -- Any hope for a fast and quiet resolution to the Congressional battle over a payroll tax cut seemed to dim Tuesday as members of a bipartisan negotiating committee clashed over how to pay for the extension, and Senate Democrats suggested that they would come up with their own bill to get the matter resolved. Republicans became increasingly frustrated as Democrats shooed away one Republican proposal after the next, like a bride-to-be dismissing a long line of potential wedding gowns as too ugly. Democratic negotiators rejected $70 billion worth of spending cuts the House wanted to use to offset the cost of the package, including a one-year pay freeze for federal workers, a measure to raise Medicare premiums on some people and a proposal that would allow the government to claw back some subsidies for the purchase of health insurance under the new health care law. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

WASHINGTON THE space between Senator Jon Tester's 1,800-acre ranch outside Big Sandy, Mont., and the nation's capital is metaphysically and culturally large. But mostly, it's just plain large. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

WASHINGTON -- Senator Ben Nelson, the embattled two-term Democrat from Nebraska, said Tuesday that he would not seek re-election in 2012, giving Republicans a decided advantage in their drive to win his Senate seat and a leg up in their effort to bring the Senate under Republican control. ''Simply put,'' said Mr. Nelson, 70, in a video released Tuesday afternoon, ''it's time to move on.'' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

WASHINGTON -- Their poll numbers sinking, their constituents badly bruised by economic hardship and with millions of American workers about to get a sudden and unexpected tax increase, what are members of Congress discussing? Shutting down the government. Again. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

WASHINGTON -- As members of the Congressional deficit reduction panel retreated to conference rooms Monday to continue negotiations, House Republicans and Senate Democrats were putting their final touches on a series of spending bills that they hope will avert another showdown over short-term financing of the government. This week, the House is expected to vote on three appropriations bills with significant cuts to local law enforcement as well as trims to agriculture, community development and other programs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

WASHINGTON -- The Senate stood up Tuesday for the humble white potato and rebuffed an effort by President Obama to limit its consumption by millions of schoolchildren around the country. The administration has proposed limiting the amount of potatoes and other starchy vegetables that can be served in school lunches to one cup per student per week, and banning them from school breakfasts. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON -- There is Representative Joe Walsh, a freshman from Illinois, deriding his colleagues once again for their poor stewardship of the economy. During the debt ceiling debate, Mr. Walsh took to the airwaves to call President Obama a liar for suggesting that the nation might default. Just the other day, Mr. Walsh held court at a Tea Party rally, complaining that Republican leaders in Congress had ''been there too long'' to understand how best to deal with the nation's daunting fiscal issues. Among the 87 Republican House freshmen, Mr. Walsh is perhaps the most visible when it comes to televised economic exposition, refracted through the lens of the Tea Party that helped him eke out a win last year in a suburban Chicago district. Although his district is among the least conservative of any won by a Republican, Mr. Walsh has among the most conservative voting records; he was one of 22 Republicans to vote against the debt-ceiling agreement last summer and among the 24 Republicans to reject a short-term spending agreement passed in September, arguing that its cuts were not deep enough. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON MORE than 80 years before ''Got Milk?'' there was ''Eat the Carp!'' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

WASHINGTON -- Whatever sense of unity the nation might have felt after the killing of Osama bin Laden, it did not extend to the pressing domestic policy issues that divide Congressional Republicans and Democrats, who returned to work in earnest Tuesday. Lawmakers were quickly back to arguing over economic and health care policy, trading blame for high gasoline prices and positioning themselves for the fight over raising the federal debt limit. The Senate found itself at multiple impasses over a small-business bill and judicial confirmations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

WASHINGTON -- You're new to town, and your dreams and plans are big as the Capitol rotunda. You will do all you can to repeal the new health care law. You will tame the budget deficit. You will make your mark, or at least a very large speck, on American life. But first, you will do TV. At 7:30 a.m., with reporters from your home state, via the phone because the satellite link malfunctioned. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

WASHINGTON -- In a blaze of unusual bipartisan fury, a military policy bill that would repeal the ban on gay and lesbian soldiers serving openly in the military stalled in the Senate on Thursday, severely diminishing the chances of ending the Clinton-era policy this year. On a vote of 57 to 40, Senator Harry Reid, the majority leader, found himself 3 votes short of the 60 needed to clear a procedural hurdle that would have opened the way for passage of the measure. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Here in one of the most embattled real estate markets in the country, 1700 West Washington Street stands out, even beyond its nearly $40 million price tag. It has 205,901 square feet, terrazzo floors, a big chunk of chrysocolla displayed in the lobby and a long-term tenant who wants to stay put for 20 years -- leasing the building back from a buyer for more than its assessed value. Bonus feature: There is a nifty gun locker for any potential buyer or their guests who arrive packing heat. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON -- With the hours ticking away toward a self-imposed deadline, Congressional leaders conceded Sunday that talks on a sweeping deficit agreement were near failure and braced for recriminations over their inability to reach a deal. The stalemate was the latest sign of partisan deadlock in Washington, which members of both parties do not expect to lift until the 2012 election has clarified which party has the upper hand. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]