"Now, it's a finger-biting game between the Israelis and the Palestinians," said Hassan Ayoub, director of the Palestine Liberation Organization's executive committee office in Nablus.
Cesar Conda, who was the Republican staff director for the Senate Small Business Committee, on which Mr. Kasten served as the ranking Republican, recalled an earnest young intern carrying the mail between Mr. Kasten's personal office and his committee office.
The letter, which was delivered to a committee office in downtown Des Moines, invited Ms. Wasserman Schultz to meet with protesters at their rented loft space near the State Capitol the following day.
Murray, whose invitation to speak to committee investigators had been rumored but not confirmed, nodded when asked his identity by a reporter in the hallway outside the committee office.
Indeed, while a handful of camera crews and reporters waited outside the ethics committee office in the Hart Senate Office Building, the proceeding was actually under way in the Capitol, a few blocks away.
"Success or failure of a U.S. policy toward North Korea isn't too big a deal to the American people, but it is a life-or-death matter for South Koreans," Mr. Roh said at his transition committee office.
And for those eager to read up on obscure county history, the recent addition of thousands of pages of the "Desktop Reference" features information on nearly every county committee, office and budget expenditure from 1665 to date.
Democrats from the White House down to the party's central committee office in Multnomah County, Ore., say they are debating the best way to leverage the victories of scores of Tea Party candidates who prevailed in primary races, like Christine O'Donnell, who surprised many last week by winning the Republican nomination for United States Senate in Delaware.
With the newly elected Congress more closely divided than at any time since Dwight D. Eisenhower was president, members of both parties are wrestling with how to run a branch of government where any question -- from the confirmation of cabinet members to assigning committee office space -- could create deadlock.
His committee office did not respond to a request for comment on the House Democrats' bill.
Carper's committee office confirmed the senator's wife currently owns Apple equities, but committee spokeswoman Jennie Westbrook declined to answer specific questions about the stock holding.
