Barbara Comstock - Washingtonian https://www.washingtonian.com The website that Washington lives by. Wed, 01 Aug 2018 16:58:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.washingtonian.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/cropped-washingtonian-favicon-gigantic-138x138.png Barbara Comstock - Washingtonian https://www.washingtonian.com 32 32 Democrats Are Salivating About Beating Barbara Comstock This Fall. It Might Not Be That Easy. https://www.washingtonian.com/2018/07/29/democrats-are-salivating-about-beating-barbara-comstock-this-fall-it-might-not-be-that-easy/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=democrats-are-salivating-about-beating-barbara-comstock-this-fall-it-might-not-be-that-easy Sun, 29 Jul 2018 22:00:32 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=426236 It was February 6—a cloudy winter day in Washington—and more than a dozen members of Congress had gathered at the White House. Ostensibly, they were in the Cabinet Room with the President to discuss gang violence, but the prospect of another government shutdown was on everyone’s mind. A stopgap funding measure was about to run […]

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Can A DC Insider Win as a Republican in 2017? Ed Gillespie Is About to Find Out. https://www.washingtonian.com/2017/10/03/dc-insider-republican-2017-ed-gillespie-governor-virginia-election/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dc-insider-republican-2017-ed-gillespie-governor-virginia-election Tue, 03 Oct 2017 11:00:42 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=238276 It’s a muggy afternoon in early summer, and Ed Gillespie is making a lunchtime stop at Mission BBQ, a military-themed chain restaurant in a strip-malled stretch of the Fairfax County exurbs. Arriving with no entourage other than his driver, Gillespie walks to the register and orders a brisket sandwich with French fries. He attracts no […]

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Florida Congressman Wants Metro to Be More Like Disney World Monorail https://www.washingtonian.com/2016/05/24/florida-congressman-says-make-metro-like-disney-world-monorail/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=florida-congressman-says-make-metro-like-disney-world-monorail Tue, 24 May 2016 17:11:21 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=193138 Representative Daniel Webster, a Florida Republican who sits on the House Transportation Committee, raised an interesting point of comparison during Congress’s latest hearing on Metro. “We have one rail system in my district,” said Webster, who represents Florida’s 10th congressional district, which covers much of the inland part of the state. “It’s at Disney World, and in 38 […]

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Metro Chairman Tells Congress to Chip in $300 Million Per Year. Congress Yells at Metro. https://www.washingtonian.com/2016/04/13/metro-chairman-tells-congress-chip-300-million-per-year/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=metro-chairman-tells-congress-chip-300-million-per-year Wed, 13 Apr 2016 21:58:33 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=189932 It didn’t take long for a congressional hearing into Metro’s condition to devolve into a screaming match. All Jack Evans, the chairman of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, had to do was ask for money. In his opening remarks, Evans asked a joint hearing of the House Oversight subcommittees on government operations and transportation for the federal […]

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6 Friendships That Prove Washington’s Not Totally Polarized https://www.washingtonian.com/2016/03/18/6-friendships-that-prove-washington-dc-is-not-totally-polarized/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=6-friendships-that-prove-washington-dc-is-not-totally-polarized Fri, 18 Mar 2016 21:44:50 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=188075 Tom Daschle and Trent Lott Daschle, 68, is a former senator from South Dakota. Lott, 74, is a former senator from Mississippi. How they met: They served in the House of Representatives together, then really got to know each other in the mid-1990s when they each began turns as Senate majority leader and minority leader. […]

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