John Boehner, the House Republican leader, has been reduced to using his Web site to seek "credentialed American economists" willing to add their names to a list of "stimulus spending skeptics".
But they were all very nice, and seemed to understand when those seeking credentials explained the circularity of it all.
I enrolled at Eastern Nazarene College seeking credentials that would enable me to join the creationists in their fight against evolution.
More detailed background checks have also been performed on those seeking credentials for the tournament, which is about to become commonplace on the tour, too.
While the majority of older students are seeking credentials and skills that can help their careers, those students at Smith and other elite women's colleges, like Mount Holyoke in South Hadley, Mass., and Bryn Mawr in Pennsylvania, seem more focused on gaining the knowledge that comes with a liberal arts degree.
Primarily the thieves sought credentials for online bank websites, said Dr Stone-Gross, but they were increasingly seeking out people who had access to commercial banking and payroll systems.
In Chicago, journalists seeking credentials are not required to provide six clips to be assessed by the police department.
But as memories of those abuses faded, Congress and the George W. Bush administration chipped away at the restrictions, leading to an eventual explosion in the number of students seeking credentials from for-profit schools.
But the main reason that thousands of Iowa Democrats are trekking to a hot-air-balloon field outside Des Moines, and more than 200 reporters from around the world sought credentials to attend, is Clinton's appearance on the bill with her husband, former President Bill Clinton.
