The couple adopting a baby, for instance, was assured of a quick solution; though a package delivery service had said it was unable to deliver the needed adoption paperwork to the closed Capitol, top state officials said on Friday afternoon that they would work around that, offering to drive to the delivery company themselves, if need be, to find the package.
Congressional leaders sweep into restaurants trailed by members of the Capitol Police; top White House advisers have Secret Service agents.
On Capitol Hill, top House and Senate Republicans called on the administration to confer with lawmakers before any military strike and to make the case to a skeptical public.
Mr. Santorum held weekly private strategy sessions in the Capitol with top Washington lobbyists; the sessions were intended, participants said, as an exchange of ideas.
There was one casualty, far from the Capitol: the top Texas utility regulator, who formerly served as Enron's president in Mexico, resigned under political pressure.
He and other Democrats, assisted by a team of aides that included a couple of the Capitol's top experts in House rules, pestered the majority and slowed the machinery of the Legislature in a way that sometimes forced Republicans to accommodate their wishes.
Those albums pushed Coldplay's "X&Y" (Capitol), the top seller for the last three weeks, to No. 3. Mariah Carey's "Emancipation of Mimi" (Island/Def Jam) is at No. 4, holding strong three months after its release; it sold 131,000 last week for a total of about 2.3 million.
The stuff was allegedly delivered to the Capitol by Top Chef alum Spike Mendelsohn's DC pizza joint, We, The Pizza.
On a steamy mid-July day on Capitol Hill, top lieutenants to Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy had a special guest at their weekly vote-counting meeting: Karl Rove.
The governor signed the spending plan at a news conference at the Capitol with top Democratic lawmakers, with the officials celebrating what they characterized as California's new financial health.
For a woman looking for financial success in a bustling metro, the country's capitol is top-notch, and also boasts an excellent school system.
