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<rss xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:taxo="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/taxonomy/" xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" version="2.0"><channel><title>In The Loop</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com?wprss=rss_linkset</link><description>Who is up and down in government circles, the arduous fact-finding trips politicians and officials take on taxpayer expense, and news and analysis on the quirkier corner of political life in Washington D.C. from In the Loop at the Washington Post.</description><language>en</language><copyright>Copyright 2012 Washington Post Company</copyright><pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 11:29:37 GMT</pubDate><lastBuildDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 11:29:37 GMT</lastBuildDate><ttl>5</ttl><image><title>In The Loop</title><url>http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com?wprss=rss_linkset</link></image><item><title>The case of the Army’s ‘invisible’ plane</title><link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636597/s/2c4087ac/l/0L0Swashingtonpost0N0Cblogs0Cin0Ethe0Eloop0Cpost0Cthe0Ecase0Eof0Ethe0Earmys0Einvisible0Eplane0C20A130C0A50C210Ca21179aa0Ec1910E11e20E8bd80E27880A30Ae6b440Iblog0Bhtml0Dwprss0Frss0Iin0Ethe0Eloop/story01.htm</link><description>&lt;p&gt;It’s hard sometimes to keep track of all your planes. The Army, it seems, “lost” one for a while. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Well, not actually lost, according to a &lt;a data-xslt="_http" href="http://www.dodig.mil/pubs/report_summary.cfm?id=5143"&gt;May 9 Department of Defense inspector general’s &lt;/a&gt;report, since it seems to have been used by Army brass (also known as “high priority passengers”) who needed a ride “to give speeches, or attend conferences, meetings” and such.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/post/the-case-of-the-armys-invisible-plane/2013/05/21/a21179aa-c191-11e2-8bd8-2788030e6b44_blog.html?wprss=rss_in-the-loop"&gt;Read full article &amp;#62;&amp;#62;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636597/s/2c4087ac/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;div class='mf-viral'&gt;&lt;table border='0'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign='middle'&gt;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/twitter/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fthe-case-of-the-armys-invisible-plane%2F2013%2F05%2F21%2Fa21179aa-c191-11e2-8bd8-2788030e6b44_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=The+case+of+the+Army%E2%80%99s+%E2%80%98invisible%E2%80%99+plane" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/twitter.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/facebook/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fthe-case-of-the-armys-invisible-plane%2F2013%2F05%2F21%2Fa21179aa-c191-11e2-8bd8-2788030e6b44_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=The+case+of+the+Army%E2%80%99s+%E2%80%98invisible%E2%80%99+plane" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/facebook.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/linkedin/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fthe-case-of-the-armys-invisible-plane%2F2013%2F05%2F21%2Fa21179aa-c191-11e2-8bd8-2788030e6b44_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=The+case+of+the+Army%E2%80%99s+%E2%80%98invisible%E2%80%99+plane" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/linkedin.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/gplus/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fthe-case-of-the-armys-invisible-plane%2F2013%2F05%2F21%2Fa21179aa-c191-11e2-8bd8-2788030e6b44_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=The+case+of+the+Army%E2%80%99s+%E2%80%98invisible%E2%80%99+plane" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/googleplus.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/email/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fthe-case-of-the-armys-invisible-plane%2F2013%2F05%2F21%2Fa21179aa-c191-11e2-8bd8-2788030e6b44_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=The+case+of+the+Army%E2%80%99s+%E2%80%98invisible%E2%80%99+plane" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/email.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665028771/u/0/f/636597/c/34656/s/2c4087ac/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665028771/u/0/f/636597/c/34656/s/2c4087ac/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165665028771/u/0/f/636597/c/34656/s/2c4087ac/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;</description><category domain="">Inspector General</category><pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/post/the-case-of-the-armys-invisible-plane/2013/05/21/a21179aa-c191-11e2-8bd8-2788030e6b44_blog.html?wprss=rss_in-the-loop</guid><dc:creator>Al Kamen</dc:creator></item><item><title>France, Spain among top congressional destinations, report finds</title><link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636597/s/2c371cae/l/0L0Swashingtonpost0N0Cblogs0Cin0Ethe0Eloop0Cpost0Cfrance0Espain0Eamong0Etop0Econgressional0Edestinations0Ereport0Efinds0C20A130C0A50C210C776875160Ec22a0E11e20E914f0Ea7aba60A512a70Iblog0Bhtml0Dwprss0Frss0Iin0Ethe0Eloop/story01.htm</link><description>&lt;p&gt;If the frequency of congressional visits is any indication, Afghanistan is important to lawmakers — but then again, so are more traditional (and scenic) destinations like France, Spain and Ireland. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;According to an &lt;a data-xslt="_http" href="http://politics.heraldtribune.com/2013/05/11/data-mine-2012-congressional-travel/"&gt;impressive database&lt;/a&gt; of House member’s travel in 2012 constructed by the folks at the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, war-torn Afghanistan was the most popular destination for lawmakers travelling abroad, getting 37 visits. But Spain got 30 — and perhaps unsurprisingly, members lingered there a bit longer, staying a total of 227 days, far longer than the 161 days they spent in Afghanistan. Hey, we understand — we hear the paella’s far better in sunny Spain.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/post/france-spain-among-top-congressional-destinations-report-finds/2013/05/21/77687516-c22a-11e2-914f-a7aba60512a7_blog.html?wprss=rss_in-the-loop"&gt;Read full article &amp;#62;&amp;#62;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636597/s/2c371cae/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;div class='mf-viral'&gt;&lt;table border='0'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign='middle'&gt;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/twitter/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Ffrance-spain-among-top-congressional-destinations-report-finds%2F2013%2F05%2F21%2F77687516-c22a-11e2-914f-a7aba60512a7_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=France%2C+Spain+among+top+congressional+destinations%2C+report+finds" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/twitter.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/facebook/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Ffrance-spain-among-top-congressional-destinations-report-finds%2F2013%2F05%2F21%2F77687516-c22a-11e2-914f-a7aba60512a7_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=France%2C+Spain+among+top+congressional+destinations%2C+report+finds" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/facebook.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/linkedin/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Ffrance-spain-among-top-congressional-destinations-report-finds%2F2013%2F05%2F21%2F77687516-c22a-11e2-914f-a7aba60512a7_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=France%2C+Spain+among+top+congressional+destinations%2C+report+finds" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/linkedin.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/gplus/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Ffrance-spain-among-top-congressional-destinations-report-finds%2F2013%2F05%2F21%2F77687516-c22a-11e2-914f-a7aba60512a7_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=France%2C+Spain+among+top+congressional+destinations%2C+report+finds" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/googleplus.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/email/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Ffrance-spain-among-top-congressional-destinations-report-finds%2F2013%2F05%2F21%2F77687516-c22a-11e2-914f-a7aba60512a7_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=France%2C+Spain+among+top+congressional+destinations%2C+report+finds" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/email.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665053866/u/0/f/636597/c/34656/s/2c371cae/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665053866/u/0/f/636597/c/34656/s/2c371cae/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165665053866/u/0/f/636597/c/34656/s/2c371cae/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;</description><pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 16:59:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/post/france-spain-among-top-congressional-destinations-report-finds/2013/05/21/77687516-c22a-11e2-914f-a7aba60512a7_blog.html?wprss=rss_in-the-loop</guid><dc:creator>Emily Heil</dc:creator></item><item><title>Obama White House policy: ‘Don’t tell Dad’</title><link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636597/s/2c368801/l/0L0Swashingtonpost0N0Cblogs0Cin0Ethe0Eloop0Cpost0Cobama0Ewhite0Ehouse0Epolicy0Edont0Etell0Edad0C20A130C0A50C210C2c983b20A0Ec21b0E11e20E8c3b0E0Ab5e9247e8ca0Iblog0Bhtml0Dwprss0Frss0Iin0Ethe0Eloop/story01.htm</link><description>&lt;p&gt;This IRS scandal is, &lt;a data-xslt="_http" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/post/benghazi-irs-government-spying-on-the-press/2013/05/16/507e051e-be2f-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html"&gt;as expected&lt;/a&gt;, getting most interesting.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;People are starting to ask questions about who knew what when — a variant of former Sen. Howard Baker’s famous Watergate hearing question 40 years ago: “What did the president know and when did he know it?”&lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/post/obama-white-house-policy-dont-tell-dad/2013/05/21/2c983b20-c21b-11e2-8c3b-0b5e9247e8ca_blog.html?wprss=rss_in-the-loop"&gt;Read full article &amp;#62;&amp;#62;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636597/s/2c368801/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;div class='mf-viral'&gt;&lt;table border='0'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign='middle'&gt;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/twitter/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fobama-white-house-policy-dont-tell-dad%2F2013%2F05%2F21%2F2c983b20-c21b-11e2-8c3b-0b5e9247e8ca_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Obama+White+House+policy%3A+%E2%80%98Don%E2%80%99t+tell+Dad%E2%80%99" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/twitter.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/facebook/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fobama-white-house-policy-dont-tell-dad%2F2013%2F05%2F21%2F2c983b20-c21b-11e2-8c3b-0b5e9247e8ca_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Obama+White+House+policy%3A+%E2%80%98Don%E2%80%99t+tell+Dad%E2%80%99" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/facebook.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/linkedin/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fobama-white-house-policy-dont-tell-dad%2F2013%2F05%2F21%2F2c983b20-c21b-11e2-8c3b-0b5e9247e8ca_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Obama+White+House+policy%3A+%E2%80%98Don%E2%80%99t+tell+Dad%E2%80%99" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/linkedin.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/gplus/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fobama-white-house-policy-dont-tell-dad%2F2013%2F05%2F21%2F2c983b20-c21b-11e2-8c3b-0b5e9247e8ca_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Obama+White+House+policy%3A+%E2%80%98Don%E2%80%99t+tell+Dad%E2%80%99" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/googleplus.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/email/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fobama-white-house-policy-dont-tell-dad%2F2013%2F05%2F21%2F2c983b20-c21b-11e2-8c3b-0b5e9247e8ca_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Obama+White+House+policy%3A+%E2%80%98Don%E2%80%99t+tell+Dad%E2%80%99" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/email.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665052168/u/0/f/636597/c/34656/s/2c368801/kg/342-363/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665052168/u/0/f/636597/c/34656/s/2c368801/kg/342-363/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165665052168/u/0/f/636597/c/34656/s/2c368801/kg/342-363/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;</description><category domain="">Obama</category><pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 16:16:32 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/post/obama-white-house-policy-dont-tell-dad/2013/05/21/2c983b20-c21b-11e2-8c3b-0b5e9247e8ca_blog.html?wprss=rss_in-the-loop</guid><dc:creator>Al Kamen</dc:creator></item><item><title>Scalia questions CTIA’s ‘secret’ identity</title><link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636597/s/2c35465e/l/0L0Swashingtonpost0N0Cblogs0Cin0Ethe0Eloop0Cpost0Cscalia0Equestions0Ectias0Esecret0Eidentity0C20A130C0A50C210Cff870Ae240Ec1780E11e20Eab60A0E67bba7be78130Iblog0Bhtml0Dwprss0Frss0Iin0Ethe0Eloop/story01.htm</link><description>&lt;p&gt;In addition to knowing the laws of the land, Antonin Scalia apparently is familiar with the cardinal rule of comedy: know your audience.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;In a footnote in &lt;a data-xslt="_http" href="http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/11-1545_1b7d.pdf" target="_blank"&gt;an opinion&lt;/a&gt; on a rather obscure case on Monday, the droll Supreme Court justice dropped a dry little aside that cracked up only a tiny subsection of Washington — telecom lawyers. Scalia affixed a footnote to a mention of “CTIA — The Wireless Association,” the name of the trade association that represents wireless companies.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/post/scalia-questions-ctias-secret-identity/2013/05/21/ff870e24-c178-11e2-ab60-67bba7be7813_blog.html?wprss=rss_in-the-loop"&gt;Read full article &amp;#62;&amp;#62;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636597/s/2c35465e/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;div class='mf-viral'&gt;&lt;table border='0'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign='middle'&gt;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/twitter/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fscalia-questions-ctias-secret-identity%2F2013%2F05%2F21%2Fff870e24-c178-11e2-ab60-67bba7be7813_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Scalia+questions+CTIA%E2%80%99s+%E2%80%98secret%E2%80%99+identity" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/twitter.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/facebook/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fscalia-questions-ctias-secret-identity%2F2013%2F05%2F21%2Fff870e24-c178-11e2-ab60-67bba7be7813_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Scalia+questions+CTIA%E2%80%99s+%E2%80%98secret%E2%80%99+identity" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/facebook.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/linkedin/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fscalia-questions-ctias-secret-identity%2F2013%2F05%2F21%2Fff870e24-c178-11e2-ab60-67bba7be7813_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Scalia+questions+CTIA%E2%80%99s+%E2%80%98secret%E2%80%99+identity" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/linkedin.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/gplus/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fscalia-questions-ctias-secret-identity%2F2013%2F05%2F21%2Fff870e24-c178-11e2-ab60-67bba7be7813_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Scalia+questions+CTIA%E2%80%99s+%E2%80%98secret%E2%80%99+identity" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/googleplus.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/email/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fscalia-questions-ctias-secret-identity%2F2013%2F05%2F21%2Fff870e24-c178-11e2-ab60-67bba7be7813_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Scalia+questions+CTIA%E2%80%99s+%E2%80%98secret%E2%80%99+identity" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/email.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665040103/u/0/f/636597/c/34656/s/2c35465e/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665040103/u/0/f/636597/c/34656/s/2c35465e/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165665040103/u/0/f/636597/c/34656/s/2c35465e/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;</description><pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 13:58:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/post/scalia-questions-ctias-secret-identity/2013/05/21/ff870e24-c178-11e2-ab60-67bba7be7813_blog.html?wprss=rss_in-the-loop</guid><dc:creator>Emily Heil</dc:creator></item><item><title>At the Park Service, a DIY approach to trash hauling</title><link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636597/s/2c33e0ee/l/0L0Swashingtonpost0N0Cblogs0Cin0Ethe0Eloop0Cpost0Cat0Ethe0Epark0Eservice0Ea0Ediy0Eapproach0Eto0Etrash0Ehauling0C20A130C0A50C20A0C3422946e0Ec1650E11e20Eab60A0E67bba7be78130Iblog0Bhtml0Dwprss0Frss0Iin0Ethe0Eloop/story01.htm</link><description>&lt;p&gt;In a big win for those who advocate personal responsibility above heavy-handed government, the U.S. Park Service is expanding the rugged-individual approach to a service typically left to Uncle Sam: trash hauling.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/post/at-the-park-service-a-diy-approach-to-trash-hauling/2013/05/20/3422946e-c165-11e2-ab60-67bba7be7813_blog.html?wprss=rss_in-the-loop"&gt;Read full article &amp;#62;&amp;#62;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636597/s/2c33e0ee/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;div class='mf-viral'&gt;&lt;table border='0'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign='middle'&gt;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/twitter/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fat-the-park-service-a-diy-approach-to-trash-hauling%2F2013%2F05%2F20%2F3422946e-c165-11e2-ab60-67bba7be7813_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=At+the+Park+Service%2C+a+DIY+approach+to+trash+hauling" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/twitter.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/facebook/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fat-the-park-service-a-diy-approach-to-trash-hauling%2F2013%2F05%2F20%2F3422946e-c165-11e2-ab60-67bba7be7813_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=At+the+Park+Service%2C+a+DIY+approach+to+trash+hauling" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/facebook.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/linkedin/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fat-the-park-service-a-diy-approach-to-trash-hauling%2F2013%2F05%2F20%2F3422946e-c165-11e2-ab60-67bba7be7813_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=At+the+Park+Service%2C+a+DIY+approach+to+trash+hauling" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/linkedin.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/gplus/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fat-the-park-service-a-diy-approach-to-trash-hauling%2F2013%2F05%2F20%2F3422946e-c165-11e2-ab60-67bba7be7813_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=At+the+Park+Service%2C+a+DIY+approach+to+trash+hauling" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/googleplus.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/email/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fat-the-park-service-a-diy-approach-to-trash-hauling%2F2013%2F05%2F20%2F3422946e-c165-11e2-ab60-67bba7be7813_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=At+the+Park+Service%2C+a+DIY+approach+to+trash+hauling" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/email.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664949862/u/0/f/636597/c/34656/s/2c33e0ee/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664949862/u/0/f/636597/c/34656/s/2c33e0ee/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664949862/u/0/f/636597/c/34656/s/2c33e0ee/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;</description><pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/post/at-the-park-service-a-diy-approach-to-trash-hauling/2013/05/20/3422946e-c165-11e2-ab60-67bba7be7813_blog.html?wprss=rss_in-the-loop</guid><dc:creator>Emily Heil</dc:creator></item><item><title>Sapiro moving up to be acting U.S Trade Rep</title><link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636597/s/2c2b2eca/l/0L0Swashingtonpost0N0Cblogs0Cin0Ethe0Eloop0Cpost0Csapiro0Emoving0Eup0Eto0Ebe0Eacting0Eus0Etrade0Erep0C20A130C0A50C20A0C733896c0A0Ec170A0E11e20E8bd80E27880A30Ae6b440Iblog0Bhtml0Dwprss0Frss0Iin0Ethe0Eloop/story01.htm</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Miriam Sapiro is expected to be named this week as acting United States Trade Representative, taking over for acting trade rep Demetrios Marantis when he leaves on Wednesday to take a top job at Square, the mobile payments company.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/post/sapiro-moving-up-to-be-acting-us-trade-rep/2013/05/20/733896c0-c170-11e2-8bd8-2788030e6b44_blog.html?wprss=rss_in-the-loop"&gt;Read full article &amp;#62;&amp;#62;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636597/s/2c2b2eca/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;div class='mf-viral'&gt;&lt;table border='0'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign='middle'&gt;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/twitter/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fsapiro-moving-up-to-be-acting-us-trade-rep%2F2013%2F05%2F20%2F733896c0-c170-11e2-8bd8-2788030e6b44_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Sapiro+moving+up+to+be+acting+U.S+Trade+Rep" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/twitter.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/facebook/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fsapiro-moving-up-to-be-acting-us-trade-rep%2F2013%2F05%2F20%2F733896c0-c170-11e2-8bd8-2788030e6b44_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Sapiro+moving+up+to+be+acting+U.S+Trade+Rep" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/facebook.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/linkedin/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fsapiro-moving-up-to-be-acting-us-trade-rep%2F2013%2F05%2F20%2F733896c0-c170-11e2-8bd8-2788030e6b44_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Sapiro+moving+up+to+be+acting+U.S+Trade+Rep" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/linkedin.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/gplus/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fsapiro-moving-up-to-be-acting-us-trade-rep%2F2013%2F05%2F20%2F733896c0-c170-11e2-8bd8-2788030e6b44_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Sapiro+moving+up+to+be+acting+U.S+Trade+Rep" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/googleplus.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/email/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fsapiro-moving-up-to-be-acting-us-trade-rep%2F2013%2F05%2F20%2F733896c0-c170-11e2-8bd8-2788030e6b44_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Sapiro+moving+up+to+be+acting+U.S+Trade+Rep" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/email.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664900755/u/0/f/636597/c/34656/s/2c2b2eca/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664900755/u/0/f/636597/c/34656/s/2c2b2eca/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664900755/u/0/f/636597/c/34656/s/2c2b2eca/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;</description><category domain="">transition</category><pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 18:10:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/post/sapiro-moving-up-to-be-acting-us-trade-rep/2013/05/20/733896c0-c170-11e2-8bd8-2788030e6b44_blog.html?wprss=rss_in-the-loop</guid><dc:creator>Al Kamen</dc:creator></item><item><title>Rumsfeld’s Rules: ‘Leadership lessons’ on war and life</title><link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636597/s/2c2a0d79/l/0L0Swashingtonpost0N0Cblogs0Cin0Ethe0Eloop0Cpost0Crumsfelds0Erules0Eleadership0Elessons0Eon0Ewar0Eand0Elife0C20A130C0A50C20A0C9f4f479e0Ebf230E11e20E97d40Ea479289a31f90Iblog0Bhtml0Dwprss0Frss0Iin0Ethe0Eloop/story01.htm</link><description>&lt;p&gt;We weren’t going to read former secretary of defense Don Rumsfeld’s book, “&lt;a data-xslt="_http" href="http://www.rumsfeldsrules.com/"&gt;Rumsfeld’s Rules&lt;/a&gt;,” a collection of aphorisms and anodyne nostrums he’s collected and espoused over the years.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;But book jacket praise by Dick Cheney and Henry Kissinger convinced us to take a look. And anyone who quotes Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Seneca, Machiavelli and Jon Stewart is on to something.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/post/rumsfelds-rules-leadership-lessons-on-war-and-life/2013/05/20/9f4f479e-bf23-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html?wprss=rss_in-the-loop"&gt;Read full article &amp;#62;&amp;#62;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636597/s/2c2a0d79/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;div class='mf-viral'&gt;&lt;table border='0'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign='middle'&gt;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/twitter/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Frumsfelds-rules-leadership-lessons-on-war-and-life%2F2013%2F05%2F20%2F9f4f479e-bf23-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Rumsfeld%E2%80%99s+Rules%3A+%E2%80%98Leadership+lessons%E2%80%99+on+war+and+life" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/twitter.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/facebook/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Frumsfelds-rules-leadership-lessons-on-war-and-life%2F2013%2F05%2F20%2F9f4f479e-bf23-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Rumsfeld%E2%80%99s+Rules%3A+%E2%80%98Leadership+lessons%E2%80%99+on+war+and+life" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/facebook.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/linkedin/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Frumsfelds-rules-leadership-lessons-on-war-and-life%2F2013%2F05%2F20%2F9f4f479e-bf23-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Rumsfeld%E2%80%99s+Rules%3A+%E2%80%98Leadership+lessons%E2%80%99+on+war+and+life" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/linkedin.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/gplus/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Frumsfelds-rules-leadership-lessons-on-war-and-life%2F2013%2F05%2F20%2F9f4f479e-bf23-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Rumsfeld%E2%80%99s+Rules%3A+%E2%80%98Leadership+lessons%E2%80%99+on+war+and+life" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/googleplus.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/email/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Frumsfelds-rules-leadership-lessons-on-war-and-life%2F2013%2F05%2F20%2F9f4f479e-bf23-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Rumsfeld%E2%80%99s+Rules%3A+%E2%80%98Leadership+lessons%E2%80%99+on+war+and+life" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/email.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664895477/u/0/f/636597/c/34656/s/2c2a0d79/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664895477/u/0/f/636597/c/34656/s/2c2a0d79/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664895477/u/0/f/636597/c/34656/s/2c2a0d79/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;</description><category domain="">Don Rumsfeld</category><pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/post/rumsfelds-rules-leadership-lessons-on-war-and-life/2013/05/20/9f4f479e-bf23-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html?wprss=rss_in-the-loop</guid><dc:creator>Al Kamen</dc:creator></item><item><title>Obama fills jobs under streamlined process</title><link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636597/s/2c12157c/l/0L0Swashingtonpost0N0Cblogs0Cin0Ethe0Eloop0Cpost0Cobama0Efills0Ejobs0Eunder0Estreamlined0Eprocess0C20A130C0A50C170Ccf17d2d20Ebf110E11e20E97d40Ea479289a31f90Iblog0Bhtml0Dwprss0Frss0Iin0Ethe0Eloop/story01.htm</link><description>&lt;p&gt; The White House announced Thursday that President Obama “appointed” Natalie Wyeth Earnest to be assistant secretary for public affairs at the Treasury Department and Gregory L. Parham as assistant secretary for administration at the Department of Agriculture.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/post/obama-fills-jobs-under-streamlined-process/2013/05/17/cf17d2d2-bf11-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html?wprss=rss_in-the-loop"&gt;Read full article &amp;#62;&amp;#62;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636597/s/2c12157c/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;div class='mf-viral'&gt;&lt;table border='0'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign='middle'&gt;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/twitter/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fobama-fills-jobs-under-streamlined-process%2F2013%2F05%2F17%2Fcf17d2d2-bf11-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Obama+fills+jobs+under+streamlined+process" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/twitter.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/facebook/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fobama-fills-jobs-under-streamlined-process%2F2013%2F05%2F17%2Fcf17d2d2-bf11-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Obama+fills+jobs+under+streamlined+process" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/facebook.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/linkedin/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fobama-fills-jobs-under-streamlined-process%2F2013%2F05%2F17%2Fcf17d2d2-bf11-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Obama+fills+jobs+under+streamlined+process" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/linkedin.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/gplus/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fobama-fills-jobs-under-streamlined-process%2F2013%2F05%2F17%2Fcf17d2d2-bf11-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Obama+fills+jobs+under+streamlined+process" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/googleplus.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/email/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fobama-fills-jobs-under-streamlined-process%2F2013%2F05%2F17%2Fcf17d2d2-bf11-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Obama+fills+jobs+under+streamlined+process" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/email.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664763661/u/0/f/636597/c/34656/s/2c12157c/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664763661/u/0/f/636597/c/34656/s/2c12157c/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664763661/u/0/f/636597/c/34656/s/2c12157c/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;</description><category domain="">transition</category><pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 18:55:18 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/post/obama-fills-jobs-under-streamlined-process/2013/05/17/cf17d2d2-bf11-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html?wprss=rss_in-the-loop</guid><dc:creator>Al Kamen</dc:creator></item><item><title>Did Sarah Palin have her own Umbrellagate?</title><link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636597/s/2c109444/l/0L0Swashingtonpost0N0Cblogs0Cin0Ethe0Eloop0Cpost0Cdid0Esarah0Epalin0Ehave0Eher0Eown0Eumbrellagate0C20A130C0A50C170Ce7f5fda20Ebf0A10E11e20E97d40Ea479289a31f90Iblog0Bhtml0Dwprss0Frss0Iin0Ethe0Eloop/story01.htm</link><description>&lt;p&gt;A new, fourth, bigger-than-Watergate scandal has come up to end a fabulous week.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; It’s Umbrellagate, &lt;a data-xslt="_http" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/05/16/rain-mars-obamas-press-conference-video/"&gt;the uproar over President Obama’s asking Marines to hold umbrellas &lt;/a&gt;for him and for Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the Rose Garden.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/post/did-sarah-palin-have-her-own-umbrellagate/2013/05/17/e7f5fda2-bf01-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html?wprss=rss_in-the-loop"&gt;Read full article &amp;#62;&amp;#62;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636597/s/2c109444/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;div class='mf-viral'&gt;&lt;table border='0'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign='middle'&gt;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/twitter/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fdid-sarah-palin-have-her-own-umbrellagate%2F2013%2F05%2F17%2Fe7f5fda2-bf01-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Did+Sarah+Palin+have+her+own+Umbrellagate%3F" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/twitter.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/facebook/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fdid-sarah-palin-have-her-own-umbrellagate%2F2013%2F05%2F17%2Fe7f5fda2-bf01-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Did+Sarah+Palin+have+her+own+Umbrellagate%3F" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/facebook.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/linkedin/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fdid-sarah-palin-have-her-own-umbrellagate%2F2013%2F05%2F17%2Fe7f5fda2-bf01-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Did+Sarah+Palin+have+her+own+Umbrellagate%3F" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/linkedin.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/gplus/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fdid-sarah-palin-have-her-own-umbrellagate%2F2013%2F05%2F17%2Fe7f5fda2-bf01-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Did+Sarah+Palin+have+her+own+Umbrellagate%3F" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/googleplus.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/email/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fdid-sarah-palin-have-her-own-umbrellagate%2F2013%2F05%2F17%2Fe7f5fda2-bf01-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Did+Sarah+Palin+have+her+own+Umbrellagate%3F" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/email.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664755337/u/0/f/636597/c/34656/s/2c109444/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664755337/u/0/f/636597/c/34656/s/2c109444/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664755337/u/0/f/636597/c/34656/s/2c109444/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;</description><category domain="">Palin</category><pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:56:40 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/post/did-sarah-palin-have-her-own-umbrellagate/2013/05/17/e7f5fda2-bf01-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html?wprss=rss_in-the-loop</guid><dc:creator>Al Kamen</dc:creator></item><item><title>Senate confirms Moniz as secretary of energy</title><link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636597/s/2c05aaa4/l/0L0Swashingtonpost0N0Cblogs0Cin0Ethe0Eloop0Cpost0Csenate0Econfirms0Emoniz0Eas0Esecretary0Eof0Eenergy0C20A130C0A50C160C3e9d924e0Ebe5a0E11e20E97d40Ea479289a31f90Iblog0Bhtml0Dwprss0Frss0Iin0Ethe0Eloop/story01.htm</link><description>&lt;p&gt;The Senate unanimously confirmed Ernest Moniz, a scientist and professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to be secretary of energy Thursday. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Environmental groups had opposed his nomination early on, saying they were concerned about his support for natural gas and nuclear power.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/post/senate-confirms-moniz-as-secretary-of-energy/2013/05/16/3e9d924e-be5a-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html?wprss=rss_in-the-loop"&gt;Read full article &amp;#62;&amp;#62;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636597/s/2c05aaa4/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;div class='mf-viral'&gt;&lt;table border='0'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign='middle'&gt;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/twitter/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fsenate-confirms-moniz-as-secretary-of-energy%2F2013%2F05%2F16%2F3e9d924e-be5a-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Senate+confirms+Moniz+as+secretary+of+energy" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/twitter.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/facebook/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fsenate-confirms-moniz-as-secretary-of-energy%2F2013%2F05%2F16%2F3e9d924e-be5a-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Senate+confirms+Moniz+as+secretary+of+energy" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/facebook.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/linkedin/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fsenate-confirms-moniz-as-secretary-of-energy%2F2013%2F05%2F16%2F3e9d924e-be5a-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Senate+confirms+Moniz+as+secretary+of+energy" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/linkedin.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/gplus/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fsenate-confirms-moniz-as-secretary-of-energy%2F2013%2F05%2F16%2F3e9d924e-be5a-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Senate+confirms+Moniz+as+secretary+of+energy" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/googleplus.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/email/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fsenate-confirms-moniz-as-secretary-of-energy%2F2013%2F05%2F16%2F3e9d924e-be5a-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Senate+confirms+Moniz+as+secretary+of+energy" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/email.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664688690/u/0/f/636597/c/34656/s/2c05aaa4/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664688690/u/0/f/636597/c/34656/s/2c05aaa4/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664688690/u/0/f/636597/c/34656/s/2c05aaa4/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;</description><category domain="">natural gas</category><category domain="">Ernest Moniz</category><category domain="">US Senate</category><category domain="">Washingtonintransition</category><pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 19:43:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/post/senate-confirms-moniz-as-secretary-of-energy/2013/05/16/3e9d924e-be5a-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html?wprss=rss_in-the-loop</guid><dc:creator>Al Kamen</dc:creator></item><item><title>Benghazi! IRS! Government spying on the press!</title><link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636597/s/2c044dcd/l/0L0Swashingtonpost0N0Cblogs0Cin0Ethe0Eloop0Cpost0Cbenghazi0Eirs0Egovernment0Espying0Eon0Ethe0Epress0C20A130C0A50C160C50A7e0A51e0Ebe2f0E11e20E97d40Ea479289a31f90Iblog0Bhtml0Dwprss0Frss0Iin0Ethe0Eloop/story01.htm</link><description>&lt;p&gt;It’s been a spectacular, dizzying week for Obama-phobes on the right and left: Benghazi! IRS! Government seizing reporters’ phone records!&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;A scandal trifecta. What our colleague Karen Tumulty said looked “like a tea party fever dream.”&lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/post/benghazi-irs-government-spying-on-the-press/2013/05/16/507e051e-be2f-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html?wprss=rss_in-the-loop"&gt;Read full article &amp;#62;&amp;#62;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636597/s/2c044dcd/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;div class='mf-viral'&gt;&lt;table border='0'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign='middle'&gt;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/twitter/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fbenghazi-irs-government-spying-on-the-press%2F2013%2F05%2F16%2F507e051e-be2f-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Benghazi%21+IRS%21+Government+spying+on+the+press%21" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/twitter.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/facebook/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fbenghazi-irs-government-spying-on-the-press%2F2013%2F05%2F16%2F507e051e-be2f-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Benghazi%21+IRS%21+Government+spying+on+the+press%21" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/facebook.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/linkedin/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fbenghazi-irs-government-spying-on-the-press%2F2013%2F05%2F16%2F507e051e-be2f-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Benghazi%21+IRS%21+Government+spying+on+the+press%21" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/linkedin.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/gplus/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fbenghazi-irs-government-spying-on-the-press%2F2013%2F05%2F16%2F507e051e-be2f-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Benghazi%21+IRS%21+Government+spying+on+the+press%21" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/googleplus.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/email/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fbenghazi-irs-government-spying-on-the-press%2F2013%2F05%2F16%2F507e051e-be2f-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Benghazi%21+IRS%21+Government+spying+on+the+press%21" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/email.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664683423/u/0/f/636597/c/34656/s/2c044dcd/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664683423/u/0/f/636597/c/34656/s/2c044dcd/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664683423/u/0/f/636597/c/34656/s/2c044dcd/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;</description><category domain="">Benghazi</category><pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 17:02:05 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/post/benghazi-irs-government-spying-on-the-press/2013/05/16/507e051e-be2f-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html?wprss=rss_in-the-loop</guid><dc:creator>Al Kamen</dc:creator></item><item><title>Obama’s books earn big bucks. Biden’s, well . . .</title><link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636597/s/2c00d069/l/0L0Swashingtonpost0N0Cblogs0Cin0Ethe0Eloop0Cpost0Cobamas0Ebooks0Eearn0Ebig0Ebucks0Ebidens0Ewell0E0E0E0C20A130C0A50C150C46ecb7160Ebd990E11e20E97d40Ea479289a31f90Iblog0Bhtml0Dwprss0Frss0Iin0Ethe0Eloop/story01.htm</link><description>&lt;p&gt;To paraphrase Mel Brooks, it’s good to be president. Really good.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Vice president? Well, not so much — at least when it comes to selling books.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Browsing through President Obama’s and Vice President Biden’s financial disclosure forms, we noticed that Biden checked the “less than $201” box on his income from Random House for his 2007 memoir, ”Promises to Keep.” (It’s actually a very fine book.)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/post/obamas-books-earn-big-bucks-bidens-well---/2013/05/15/46ecb716-bd99-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html?wprss=rss_in-the-loop"&gt;Read full article &amp;#62;&amp;#62;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636597/s/2c00d069/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;div class='mf-viral'&gt;&lt;table border='0'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign='middle'&gt;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/twitter/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fobamas-books-earn-big-bucks-bidens-well---%2F2013%2F05%2F15%2F46ecb716-bd99-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Obama%E2%80%99s+books+earn+big+bucks.+Biden%E2%80%99s%2C+well+.+.+." target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/twitter.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/facebook/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fobamas-books-earn-big-bucks-bidens-well---%2F2013%2F05%2F15%2F46ecb716-bd99-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Obama%E2%80%99s+books+earn+big+bucks.+Biden%E2%80%99s%2C+well+.+.+." target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/facebook.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/linkedin/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fobamas-books-earn-big-bucks-bidens-well---%2F2013%2F05%2F15%2F46ecb716-bd99-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Obama%E2%80%99s+books+earn+big+bucks.+Biden%E2%80%99s%2C+well+.+.+." target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/linkedin.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/gplus/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fobamas-books-earn-big-bucks-bidens-well---%2F2013%2F05%2F15%2F46ecb716-bd99-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Obama%E2%80%99s+books+earn+big+bucks.+Biden%E2%80%99s%2C+well+.+.+." target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/googleplus.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/email/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fobamas-books-earn-big-bucks-bidens-well---%2F2013%2F05%2F15%2F46ecb716-bd99-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Obama%E2%80%99s+books+earn+big+bucks.+Biden%E2%80%99s%2C+well+.+.+." target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/email.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664721705/u/0/f/636597/c/34656/s/2c00d069/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664721705/u/0/f/636597/c/34656/s/2c00d069/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664721705/u/0/f/636597/c/34656/s/2c00d069/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;</description><category domain="">Barack Obama</category><pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/post/obamas-books-earn-big-bucks-bidens-well---/2013/05/15/46ecb716-bd99-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html?wprss=rss_in-the-loop</guid><dc:creator>Al Kamen</dc:creator></item><item><title>VA deputy secretary Scott Gould departs Friday</title><link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636597/s/2bf7e465/l/0L0Swashingtonpost0N0Cblogs0Cin0Ethe0Eloop0Cpost0Cva0Edeputy0Esecretary0Escott0Egould0Edeparts0Efriday0C20A130C0A50C150Cbcd5c5120Ebd6c0E11e20E97d40Ea479289a31f90Iblog0Bhtml0Dwprss0Frss0Iin0Ethe0Eloop/story01.htm</link><description>&lt;p&gt;One more deputy secretaryship opens up on Friday, when Veterans Affairs’ &lt;a data-xslt="_http" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/w-scott-gould/gIQABuQFAP_topic.html"&gt;Scott Gould&lt;/a&gt; , a Navy veteran, finishes his last day there.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Gould, who announced his departure three weeks ago, was assistant secretary of Commerce in the Clinton administration and for the last four years held the No. 2 spot at the VA. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/post/va-deputy-secretary-scott-gould-departs-friday/2013/05/15/bcd5c512-bd6c-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html?wprss=rss_in-the-loop"&gt;Read full article &amp;#62;&amp;#62;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636597/s/2bf7e465/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;div class='mf-viral'&gt;&lt;table border='0'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign='middle'&gt;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/twitter/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fva-deputy-secretary-scott-gould-departs-friday%2F2013%2F05%2F15%2Fbcd5c512-bd6c-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=VA+deputy+secretary+Scott+Gould+departs+Friday" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/twitter.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/facebook/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fva-deputy-secretary-scott-gould-departs-friday%2F2013%2F05%2F15%2Fbcd5c512-bd6c-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=VA+deputy+secretary+Scott+Gould+departs+Friday" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/facebook.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/linkedin/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fva-deputy-secretary-scott-gould-departs-friday%2F2013%2F05%2F15%2Fbcd5c512-bd6c-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=VA+deputy+secretary+Scott+Gould+departs+Friday" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/linkedin.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/gplus/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fva-deputy-secretary-scott-gould-departs-friday%2F2013%2F05%2F15%2Fbcd5c512-bd6c-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=VA+deputy+secretary+Scott+Gould+departs+Friday" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/googleplus.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/email/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fva-deputy-secretary-scott-gould-departs-friday%2F2013%2F05%2F15%2Fbcd5c512-bd6c-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=VA+deputy+secretary+Scott+Gould+departs+Friday" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/email.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664599211/u/0/f/636597/c/34656/s/2bf7e465/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664599211/u/0/f/636597/c/34656/s/2bf7e465/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664599211/u/0/f/636597/c/34656/s/2bf7e465/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;</description><category domain="">transition</category><pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 19:42:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/post/va-deputy-secretary-scott-gould-departs-friday/2013/05/15/bcd5c512-bd6c-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html?wprss=rss_in-the-loop</guid><dc:creator>Al Kamen</dc:creator></item><item><title>Kerry team starting to fill in at State</title><link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636597/s/2bf69959/l/0L0Swashingtonpost0N0Cblogs0Cin0Ethe0Eloop0Cpost0Ckerry0Eteam0Estarting0Eto0Efill0Ein0Eat0Estate0C20A130C0A50C150Ce65ce2140Ebbf80E11e20E97d40Ea479289a31f90Iblog0Bhtml0Dwprss0Frss0Iin0Ethe0Eloop/story01.htm</link><description>&lt;p&gt;We’re hearing that Danny Russel, a 20-plus year State Department veteran who is senior director for Asian Affairs at the National Security Counsel, is heading over to Foggy Bottom to be assistant secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/post/kerry-team-starting-to-fill-in-at-state/2013/05/15/e65ce214-bbf8-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html?wprss=rss_in-the-loop"&gt;Read full article &amp;#62;&amp;#62;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636597/s/2bf69959/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;div class='mf-viral'&gt;&lt;table border='0'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign='middle'&gt;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/twitter/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fkerry-team-starting-to-fill-in-at-state%2F2013%2F05%2F15%2Fe65ce214-bbf8-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Kerry+team+starting+to+fill+in+at+State" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/twitter.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/facebook/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fkerry-team-starting-to-fill-in-at-state%2F2013%2F05%2F15%2Fe65ce214-bbf8-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Kerry+team+starting+to+fill+in+at+State" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/facebook.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/linkedin/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fkerry-team-starting-to-fill-in-at-state%2F2013%2F05%2F15%2Fe65ce214-bbf8-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Kerry+team+starting+to+fill+in+at+State" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/linkedin.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/gplus/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fkerry-team-starting-to-fill-in-at-state%2F2013%2F05%2F15%2Fe65ce214-bbf8-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Kerry+team+starting+to+fill+in+at+State" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/googleplus.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/email/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fkerry-team-starting-to-fill-in-at-state%2F2013%2F05%2F15%2Fe65ce214-bbf8-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Kerry+team+starting+to+fill+in+at+State" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/email.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664593852/u/0/f/636597/c/34656/s/2bf69959/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664593852/u/0/f/636597/c/34656/s/2bf69959/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664593852/u/0/f/636597/c/34656/s/2bf69959/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;</description><category domain="">transition</category><pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 17:29:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/post/kerry-team-starting-to-fill-in-at-state/2013/05/15/e65ce214-bbf8-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html?wprss=rss_in-the-loop</guid><dc:creator>Al Kamen</dc:creator></item><item><title>Pelosi aide joins Facebook’s D.C. lobby shop</title><link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636597/s/2bf59de4/l/0L0Swashingtonpost0N0Cblogs0Cin0Ethe0Eloop0Cpost0Cpelosi0Eaide0Ejoins0Efacebooks0Edc0Elobby0Eshop0C20A130C0A50C150C6dbeb76e0Ebd610E11e20E97d40Ea479289a31f90Iblog0Bhtml0Dwprss0Frss0Iin0Ethe0Eloop/story01.htm</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Catlin O’Neill, long-time aide to Rep. Nancy Pelosi, is off to the private sector, joining &lt;a data-xslt="_http" href="http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/news/2011-01-13-facebook13_CV_N.htm?csp=34tech"&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt;’s growing lobbying shop in Washington. O’Neill, now chief of staff for Pelosi’s personal office, had been for six years the former speaker and now Democratic leader’s deputy director of legislative operations.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/post/pelosi-aide-joins-facebooks-dc-lobby-shop/2013/05/15/6dbeb76e-bd61-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html?wprss=rss_in-the-loop"&gt;Read full article &amp;#62;&amp;#62;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636597/s/2bf59de4/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;div class='mf-viral'&gt;&lt;table border='0'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign='middle'&gt;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/twitter/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fpelosi-aide-joins-facebooks-dc-lobby-shop%2F2013%2F05%2F15%2F6dbeb76e-bd61-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Pelosi+aide+joins+Facebook%E2%80%99s+D.C.+lobby+shop" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/twitter.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/facebook/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fpelosi-aide-joins-facebooks-dc-lobby-shop%2F2013%2F05%2F15%2F6dbeb76e-bd61-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Pelosi+aide+joins+Facebook%E2%80%99s+D.C.+lobby+shop" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/facebook.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/linkedin/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fpelosi-aide-joins-facebooks-dc-lobby-shop%2F2013%2F05%2F15%2F6dbeb76e-bd61-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Pelosi+aide+joins+Facebook%E2%80%99s+D.C.+lobby+shop" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/linkedin.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/gplus/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fpelosi-aide-joins-facebooks-dc-lobby-shop%2F2013%2F05%2F15%2F6dbeb76e-bd61-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Pelosi+aide+joins+Facebook%E2%80%99s+D.C.+lobby+shop" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/googleplus.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/email/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fpelosi-aide-joins-facebooks-dc-lobby-shop%2F2013%2F05%2F15%2F6dbeb76e-bd61-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Pelosi+aide+joins+Facebook%E2%80%99s+D.C.+lobby+shop" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/email.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664642423/u/0/f/636597/c/34656/s/2bf59de4/kg/342-363/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664642423/u/0/f/636597/c/34656/s/2bf59de4/kg/342-363/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664642423/u/0/f/636597/c/34656/s/2bf59de4/kg/342-363/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;</description><category domain="">transition</category><pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 14:41:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/post/pelosi-aide-joins-facebooks-dc-lobby-shop/2013/05/15/6dbeb76e-bd61-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html?wprss=rss_in-the-loop</guid><dc:creator>Al Kamen</dc:creator></item><item><title>Asian Americans looking to up administration jobs</title><link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636597/s/2bf948d4/l/0L0Swashingtonpost0N0Cblogs0Cin0Ethe0Eloop0Cpost0Casian0Eamericans0Elooking0Eto0Eup0Eadministration0Ejobs0C20A130C0A50C150C7fdf2dc60Eb8d80E11e20Eb94c0Eb684dda0A7add0Iblog0Bhtml0Dwprss0Frss0Iin0Ethe0Eloop/story01.htm</link><description>&lt;p&gt;President Obama’s second-term Cabinet selections have been sharply criticized by just about everyone from Republicans to most every Democratic constituency: women, blacks, gays, latinos and Asian Americans.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/post/asian-americans-looking-to-up-administration-jobs/2013/05/15/7fdf2dc6-b8d8-11e2-b94c-b684dda07add_blog.html?wprss=rss_in-the-loop"&gt;Read full article &amp;#62;&amp;#62;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636597/s/2bf948d4/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;div class='mf-viral'&gt;&lt;table border='0'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign='middle'&gt;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/twitter/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fasian-americans-looking-to-up-administration-jobs%2F2013%2F05%2F15%2F7fdf2dc6-b8d8-11e2-b94c-b684dda07add_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Asian+Americans+looking+to+up+administration+jobs" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/twitter.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/facebook/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fasian-americans-looking-to-up-administration-jobs%2F2013%2F05%2F15%2F7fdf2dc6-b8d8-11e2-b94c-b684dda07add_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Asian+Americans+looking+to+up+administration+jobs" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/facebook.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/linkedin/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fasian-americans-looking-to-up-administration-jobs%2F2013%2F05%2F15%2F7fdf2dc6-b8d8-11e2-b94c-b684dda07add_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Asian+Americans+looking+to+up+administration+jobs" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/linkedin.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/gplus/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fasian-americans-looking-to-up-administration-jobs%2F2013%2F05%2F15%2F7fdf2dc6-b8d8-11e2-b94c-b684dda07add_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Asian+Americans+looking+to+up+administration+jobs" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/googleplus.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/email/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fasian-americans-looking-to-up-administration-jobs%2F2013%2F05%2F15%2F7fdf2dc6-b8d8-11e2-b94c-b684dda07add_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Asian+Americans+looking+to+up+administration+jobs" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/email.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><category domain="">United States Cabinet</category><category domain="">Barack Obama</category><category domain="">Asian Americans</category><pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/post/asian-americans-looking-to-up-administration-jobs/2013/05/15/7fdf2dc6-b8d8-11e2-b94c-b684dda07add_blog.html?wprss=rss_in-the-loop</guid><dc:creator>Al Kamen</dc:creator></item><item><title>Kerry faces climate, spying, smoking in Sweden</title><link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636597/s/2be8d4cc/l/0L0Swashingtonpost0N0Cblogs0Cin0Ethe0Eloop0Cpost0Ckerry0Efaces0Eclimate0Espying0Esmoking0Ein0Esweden0C20A130C0A50C140C4d865130A0Ebbe20E11e20E97d40Ea479289a31f90Iblog0Bhtml0Dwprss0Frss0Iin0Ethe0Eloop/story01.htm</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Sweden is big in the news of late. King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia were hanging out &lt;a data-xslt="_http" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/swedish-royals-visit-delaware-to-commemorate-375th-anniversary-of-colonists-arrival/2013/05/11/664bfb74-ba62-11e2-b568-6917f6ac6d9d_story.html"&gt;over the weekend&lt;/a&gt; with Vice President Biden in Wilmington, Del., at the 375th anniversary of a Swedish colony there.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/post/kerry-faces-climate-spying-smoking-in-sweden/2013/05/14/4d865130-bbe2-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html?wprss=rss_in-the-loop"&gt;Read full article &amp;#62;&amp;#62;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636597/s/2be8d4cc/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;div class='mf-viral'&gt;&lt;table border='0'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign='middle'&gt;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/twitter/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fkerry-faces-climate-spying-smoking-in-sweden%2F2013%2F05%2F14%2F4d865130-bbe2-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Kerry+faces+climate%2C+spying%2C+smoking+in+Sweden" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/twitter.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/facebook/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fkerry-faces-climate-spying-smoking-in-sweden%2F2013%2F05%2F14%2F4d865130-bbe2-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Kerry+faces+climate%2C+spying%2C+smoking+in+Sweden" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/facebook.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/linkedin/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fkerry-faces-climate-spying-smoking-in-sweden%2F2013%2F05%2F14%2F4d865130-bbe2-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Kerry+faces+climate%2C+spying%2C+smoking+in+Sweden" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/linkedin.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/gplus/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fkerry-faces-climate-spying-smoking-in-sweden%2F2013%2F05%2F14%2F4d865130-bbe2-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Kerry+faces+climate%2C+spying%2C+smoking+in+Sweden" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/googleplus.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/email/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fkerry-faces-climate-spying-smoking-in-sweden%2F2013%2F05%2F14%2F4d865130-bbe2-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Kerry+faces+climate%2C+spying%2C+smoking+in+Sweden" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/email.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664507247/u/0/f/636597/c/34656/s/2be8d4cc/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664507247/u/0/f/636597/c/34656/s/2be8d4cc/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664507247/u/0/f/636597/c/34656/s/2be8d4cc/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;</description><category domain="">Sweden</category><pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 15:49:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/post/kerry-faces-climate-spying-smoking-in-sweden/2013/05/14/4d865130-bbe2-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html?wprss=rss_in-the-loop</guid><dc:creator>Al Kamen</dc:creator></item><item><title>New State Department briefer on the podium</title><link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636597/s/2be5a936/l/0L0Swashingtonpost0N0Cblogs0Cin0Ethe0Eloop0Cpost0Cnew0Estate0Edepartment0Ebriefer0Eon0Ethe0Epodium0C20A130C0A50C130C34c997640Ebc10A0E11e20E97d40Ea479289a31f90Iblog0Bhtml0Dwprss0Frss0Iin0Ethe0Eloop/story01.htm</link><description>&lt;p&gt;It’s happened! New State Department spokeswoman &lt;a data-xslt="_http" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/post/psaki-in-training-for-state-department-job/2013/03/11/404c42d6-8a5f-11e2-8d72-dc76641cb8d4_blog.html"&gt;Jen Psaki &lt;/a&gt;did her first official briefing Monday and, best we can tell, while she seemed maybe a bit nervous, she did a fine job.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;She also learned a very important lesson: State Department reporters at the briefings can be a bit humor-deprived. You have to help them.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/post/new-state-department-briefer-on-the-podium/2013/05/13/34c99764-bc10-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html?wprss=rss_in-the-loop"&gt;Read full article &amp;#62;&amp;#62;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636597/s/2be5a936/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;div class='mf-viral'&gt;&lt;table border='0'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign='middle'&gt;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/twitter/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fnew-state-department-briefer-on-the-podium%2F2013%2F05%2F13%2F34c99764-bc10-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=New+State+Department+briefer+on+the+podium" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/twitter.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/facebook/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fnew-state-department-briefer-on-the-podium%2F2013%2F05%2F13%2F34c99764-bc10-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=New+State+Department+briefer+on+the+podium" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/facebook.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/linkedin/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fnew-state-department-briefer-on-the-podium%2F2013%2F05%2F13%2F34c99764-bc10-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=New+State+Department+briefer+on+the+podium" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/linkedin.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/gplus/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fnew-state-department-briefer-on-the-podium%2F2013%2F05%2F13%2F34c99764-bc10-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=New+State+Department+briefer+on+the+podium" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/googleplus.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/email/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fnew-state-department-briefer-on-the-podium%2F2013%2F05%2F13%2F34c99764-bc10-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=New+State+Department+briefer+on+the+podium" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/email.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664478941/u/0/f/636597/c/34656/s/2be5a936/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664478941/u/0/f/636597/c/34656/s/2be5a936/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664478941/u/0/f/636597/c/34656/s/2be5a936/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;</description><category domain="">Psaki</category><pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/post/new-state-department-briefer-on-the-podium/2013/05/13/34c99764-bc10-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html?wprss=rss_in-the-loop</guid><dc:creator>Al Kamen</dc:creator></item><item><title>John Kerry’s brother Cam is ‘Mr. Secretary’ too</title><link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636597/s/2bdc0cba/l/0L0Swashingtonpost0N0Cblogs0Cin0Ethe0Eloop0Cpost0Cjohn0Ekerrys0Ebrother0Ecam0Eis0Emr0Esecretary0Etoo0C20A130C0A50C130C19db3b7e0Ebbe30E11e20E97d40Ea479289a31f90Iblog0Bhtml0Dwprss0Frss0Iin0Ethe0Eloop/story01.htm</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Commerce Department general counsel &lt;a data-xslt="_http" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/cameron-f-kerry/gIQAaEPEAP_topic.html"&gt;Cameron Kerry&lt;/a&gt; — brother of Secretary of State John Kerry — has been named acting secretary of Commerce when the outgoing acting secretary, Rebecca Blank, leaves at the end of this month.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/post/john-kerrys-brother-cam-is-mr-secretary-too/2013/05/13/19db3b7e-bbe3-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html?wprss=rss_in-the-loop"&gt;Read full article &amp;#62;&amp;#62;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636597/s/2bdc0cba/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;div class='mf-viral'&gt;&lt;table border='0'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign='middle'&gt;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/twitter/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fjohn-kerrys-brother-cam-is-mr-secretary-too%2F2013%2F05%2F13%2F19db3b7e-bbe3-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=John+Kerry%E2%80%99s+brother+Cam+is+%E2%80%98Mr.+Secretary%E2%80%99+too" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/twitter.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/facebook/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fjohn-kerrys-brother-cam-is-mr-secretary-too%2F2013%2F05%2F13%2F19db3b7e-bbe3-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=John+Kerry%E2%80%99s+brother+Cam+is+%E2%80%98Mr.+Secretary%E2%80%99+too" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/facebook.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/linkedin/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fjohn-kerrys-brother-cam-is-mr-secretary-too%2F2013%2F05%2F13%2F19db3b7e-bbe3-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=John+Kerry%E2%80%99s+brother+Cam+is+%E2%80%98Mr.+Secretary%E2%80%99+too" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/linkedin.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/gplus/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fjohn-kerrys-brother-cam-is-mr-secretary-too%2F2013%2F05%2F13%2F19db3b7e-bbe3-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=John+Kerry%E2%80%99s+brother+Cam+is+%E2%80%98Mr.+Secretary%E2%80%99+too" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/googleplus.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/email/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fjohn-kerrys-brother-cam-is-mr-secretary-too%2F2013%2F05%2F13%2F19db3b7e-bbe3-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=John+Kerry%E2%80%99s+brother+Cam+is+%E2%80%98Mr.+Secretary%E2%80%99+too" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/email.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664425909/u/0/f/636597/c/34656/s/2bdc0cba/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664425909/u/0/f/636597/c/34656/s/2bdc0cba/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664425909/u/0/f/636597/c/34656/s/2bdc0cba/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;</description><category domain="">transition</category><category domain="">Oklahoma Senate</category><category domain="">John Kerry</category><pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 16:23:48 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/post/john-kerrys-brother-cam-is-mr-secretary-too/2013/05/13/19db3b7e-bbe3-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html?wprss=rss_in-the-loop</guid><dc:creator>Al Kamen</dc:creator></item><item><title>Dodd-Frank reform act: how it happened</title><link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636597/s/2bd92df0/l/0L0Swashingtonpost0N0Cblogs0Cin0Ethe0Eloop0Cpost0Cdodd0Efrank0Ereform0Eact0Ehow0Eit0Ehappened0C20A130C0A50C0A90Cc2df54240Eb6810E11e20Eb94c0Eb684dda0A7add0Iblog0Bhtml0Dwprss0Frss0Iin0Ethe0Eloop/story01.htm</link><description>&lt;p&gt;About midway through his new book, Act of Congress, our colleague Bob Kaiser recalls German statesman Otto von Bismarck’s observation:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;“Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.”&lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/post/dodd-frank-reform-act-how-it-happened/2013/05/09/c2df5424-b681-11e2-b94c-b684dda07add_blog.html?wprss=rss_in-the-loop"&gt;Read full article &amp;#62;&amp;#62;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636597/s/2bd92df0/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;div class='mf-viral'&gt;&lt;table border='0'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign='middle'&gt;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/twitter/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fdodd-frank-reform-act-how-it-happened%2F2013%2F05%2F09%2Fc2df5424-b681-11e2-b94c-b684dda07add_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Dodd-Frank+reform+act%3A+how+it+happened" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/twitter.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/facebook/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fdodd-frank-reform-act-how-it-happened%2F2013%2F05%2F09%2Fc2df5424-b681-11e2-b94c-b684dda07add_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Dodd-Frank+reform+act%3A+how+it+happened" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/facebook.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/linkedin/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fdodd-frank-reform-act-how-it-happened%2F2013%2F05%2F09%2Fc2df5424-b681-11e2-b94c-b684dda07add_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Dodd-Frank+reform+act%3A+how+it+happened" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/linkedin.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/gplus/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fdodd-frank-reform-act-how-it-happened%2F2013%2F05%2F09%2Fc2df5424-b681-11e2-b94c-b684dda07add_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Dodd-Frank+reform+act%3A+how+it+happened" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/googleplus.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/email/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fdodd-frank-reform-act-how-it-happened%2F2013%2F05%2F09%2Fc2df5424-b681-11e2-b94c-b684dda07add_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Dodd-Frank+reform+act%3A+how+it+happened" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/email.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664449738/u/0/f/636597/c/34656/s/2bd92df0/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664449738/u/0/f/636597/c/34656/s/2bd92df0/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664449738/u/0/f/636597/c/34656/s/2bd92df0/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;</description><category domain="">Act of Congress</category><pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/post/dodd-frank-reform-act-how-it-happened/2013/05/09/c2df5424-b681-11e2-b94c-b684dda07add_blog.html?wprss=rss_in-the-loop</guid><dc:creator>Al Kamen</dc:creator></item><item><title>Loop Quiz! Name Obama 2009 Cabinet withdrawals</title><link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636597/s/2bc1dba9/l/0L0Swashingtonpost0N0Cblogs0Cin0Ethe0Eloop0Cpost0Cloop0Equiz0Ename0Eobama0E20A0A90Ecabinet0Ewithdrawals0C20A130C0A50C0A90Ca0Aa670Ae60Eb8f10E11e20Eb94c0Eb684dda0A7add0Iblog0Bhtml0Dwprss0Frss0Iin0Ethe0Eloop/story01.htm</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Who says presidents can’t do better as they go? &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Even though President Obama’s most recent nominees — Tom Perez for Labor, Penny Pritzker for Commerce — may face a tough go of it in the Senate, it’s something of an improvement from his first term experience.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/post/loop-quiz-name-obama-2009-cabinet-withdrawals/2013/05/09/a0a670e6-b8f1-11e2-b94c-b684dda07add_blog.html?wprss=rss_in-the-loop"&gt;Read full article &amp;#62;&amp;#62;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636597/s/2bc1dba9/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;div class='mf-viral'&gt;&lt;table border='0'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign='middle'&gt;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/twitter/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Floop-quiz-name-obama-2009-cabinet-withdrawals%2F2013%2F05%2F09%2Fa0a670e6-b8f1-11e2-b94c-b684dda07add_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Loop+Quiz%21+Name+Obama+2009+Cabinet+withdrawals" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/twitter.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/facebook/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Floop-quiz-name-obama-2009-cabinet-withdrawals%2F2013%2F05%2F09%2Fa0a670e6-b8f1-11e2-b94c-b684dda07add_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Loop+Quiz%21+Name+Obama+2009+Cabinet+withdrawals" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/facebook.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/linkedin/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Floop-quiz-name-obama-2009-cabinet-withdrawals%2F2013%2F05%2F09%2Fa0a670e6-b8f1-11e2-b94c-b684dda07add_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Loop+Quiz%21+Name+Obama+2009+Cabinet+withdrawals" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/linkedin.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/gplus/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Floop-quiz-name-obama-2009-cabinet-withdrawals%2F2013%2F05%2F09%2Fa0a670e6-b8f1-11e2-b94c-b684dda07add_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Loop+Quiz%21+Name+Obama+2009+Cabinet+withdrawals" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/googleplus.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/email/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Floop-quiz-name-obama-2009-cabinet-withdrawals%2F2013%2F05%2F09%2Fa0a670e6-b8f1-11e2-b94c-b684dda07add_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Loop+Quiz%21+Name+Obama+2009+Cabinet+withdrawals" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/email.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664271400/u/0/f/636597/c/34656/s/2bc1dba9/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664271400/u/0/f/636597/c/34656/s/2bc1dba9/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664271400/u/0/f/636597/c/34656/s/2bc1dba9/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;</description><category domain="">Obama</category><pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/post/loop-quiz-name-obama-2009-cabinet-withdrawals/2013/05/09/a0a670e6-b8f1-11e2-b94c-b684dda07add_blog.html?wprss=rss_in-the-loop</guid><dc:creator>Al Kamen</dc:creator></item><item><title>Key Cabinet jobs still open</title><link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636597/s/2bbfa19d/l/0L0Swashingtonpost0N0Cblogs0Cin0Ethe0Eloop0Cpost0Ckey0Ecabinet0Ejobs0Estill0Eopen0C20A130C0A50C0A90Cb441b7480Eb8c20E11e20Eb94c0Eb684dda0A7add0Iblog0Bhtml0Dwprss0Frss0Iin0Ethe0Eloop/story01.htm</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Seems like it’s taken a while, but now all &lt;a data-xslt="_http" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/post/obamas-second-term-cabinet-in-one-graphic/2013/05/03/6b094df2-b3f9-11e2-9a98-4be1688d7d84_blog.html"&gt;but one&lt;/a&gt; of President Obama’s Cabinet members are either on the job or have been nominated for their posts. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Much less attention has been paid to the critical deputy secretary positions, the folks who often actually run the operations. And it turns out many of those jobs, nearly half in fact, are, or will soon be, vacant.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/post/key-cabinet-jobs-still-open/2013/05/09/b441b748-b8c2-11e2-b94c-b684dda07add_blog.html?wprss=rss_in-the-loop"&gt;Read full article &amp;#62;&amp;#62;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636597/s/2bbfa19d/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;div class='mf-viral'&gt;&lt;table border='0'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign='middle'&gt;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/twitter/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fkey-cabinet-jobs-still-open%2F2013%2F05%2F09%2Fb441b748-b8c2-11e2-b94c-b684dda07add_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Key+Cabinet+jobs+still+open" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/twitter.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/facebook/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fkey-cabinet-jobs-still-open%2F2013%2F05%2F09%2Fb441b748-b8c2-11e2-b94c-b684dda07add_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Key+Cabinet+jobs+still+open" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/facebook.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/linkedin/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fkey-cabinet-jobs-still-open%2F2013%2F05%2F09%2Fb441b748-b8c2-11e2-b94c-b684dda07add_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Key+Cabinet+jobs+still+open" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/linkedin.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/gplus/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fkey-cabinet-jobs-still-open%2F2013%2F05%2F09%2Fb441b748-b8c2-11e2-b94c-b684dda07add_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Key+Cabinet+jobs+still+open" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/googleplus.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/email/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fkey-cabinet-jobs-still-open%2F2013%2F05%2F09%2Fb441b748-b8c2-11e2-b94c-b684dda07add_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Key+Cabinet+jobs+still+open" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/email.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664298660/u/0/f/636597/c/34656/s/2bbfa19d/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664298660/u/0/f/636597/c/34656/s/2bbfa19d/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664298660/u/0/f/636597/c/34656/s/2bbfa19d/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;</description><category domain="">United States Cabinet</category><category domain="">transition</category><category domain="">Barack Obama</category><pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/post/key-cabinet-jobs-still-open/2013/05/09/b441b748-b8c2-11e2-b94c-b684dda07add_blog.html?wprss=rss_in-the-loop</guid><dc:creator>Al Kamen</dc:creator></item><item><title>State official put on leave after Benghazi attack turned to poetry</title><link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636597/s/2bb68dde/l/0L0Swashingtonpost0N0Cblogs0Cin0Ethe0Eloop0Cpost0Cstate0Eofficial0Eput0Eon0Eleave0Eafter0Ebenghazi0Eattack0Eturned0Eto0Epoetry0C20A130C0A50C0A90C66513a680Eb8b80E11e20E92f30Ef29180A1936b80Iblog0Bhtml0Dwprss0Frss0Iin0Ethe0Eloop/story01.htm</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Too bad there are few words that rhyme with “Benghazi.” Otherwise, there might be more poetry about the vagaries of the international diplomacy machine.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;But there’s at least one poetic ode, courtesy of Raymond Maxwell, a deputy assistant secretary at the State Department and one of the four officials placed on leave in December after the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic outpost (“thrown under the bus,” as the Web site &lt;a data-xslt="_http" href="http://diplopundit.net/2013/05/08/raymond-maxwell-former-deputy-asst-secretary-removed-over-benghazi-pens-a-poem/"&gt;Diplopundit&lt;/a&gt;, which first flagged the poem, describes it).&lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/post/state-official-put-on-leave-after-benghazi-attack-turned-to-poetry/2013/05/09/66513a68-b8b8-11e2-92f3-f291801936b8_blog.html?wprss=rss_in-the-loop"&gt;Read full article &amp;#62;&amp;#62;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636597/s/2bb68dde/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;div class='mf-viral'&gt;&lt;table border='0'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign='middle'&gt;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/twitter/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fstate-official-put-on-leave-after-benghazi-attack-turned-to-poetry%2F2013%2F05%2F09%2F66513a68-b8b8-11e2-92f3-f291801936b8_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=State+official+put+on+leave+after+Benghazi+attack+turned+to+poetry" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/twitter.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/facebook/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fstate-official-put-on-leave-after-benghazi-attack-turned-to-poetry%2F2013%2F05%2F09%2F66513a68-b8b8-11e2-92f3-f291801936b8_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=State+official+put+on+leave+after+Benghazi+attack+turned+to+poetry" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/facebook.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/linkedin/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fstate-official-put-on-leave-after-benghazi-attack-turned-to-poetry%2F2013%2F05%2F09%2F66513a68-b8b8-11e2-92f3-f291801936b8_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=State+official+put+on+leave+after+Benghazi+attack+turned+to+poetry" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/linkedin.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/gplus/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fstate-official-put-on-leave-after-benghazi-attack-turned-to-poetry%2F2013%2F05%2F09%2F66513a68-b8b8-11e2-92f3-f291801936b8_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=State+official+put+on+leave+after+Benghazi+attack+turned+to+poetry" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/googleplus.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/email/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fstate-official-put-on-leave-after-benghazi-attack-turned-to-poetry%2F2013%2F05%2F09%2F66513a68-b8b8-11e2-92f3-f291801936b8_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=State+official+put+on+leave+after+Benghazi+attack+turned+to+poetry" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/email.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664243821/u/0/f/636597/c/34656/s/2bb68dde/kg/342/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664243821/u/0/f/636597/c/34656/s/2bb68dde/kg/342/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664243821/u/0/f/636597/c/34656/s/2bb68dde/kg/342/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;</description><pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 15:44:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/post/state-official-put-on-leave-after-benghazi-attack-turned-to-poetry/2013/05/09/66513a68-b8b8-11e2-92f3-f291801936b8_blog.html?wprss=rss_in-the-loop</guid><dc:creator>Emily Heil</dc:creator></item><item><title>Twitter legal director to White House tech post</title><link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636597/s/2bb63661/l/0L0Swashingtonpost0N0Cblogs0Cin0Ethe0Eloop0Cpost0Ctwitter0Elegal0Edirector0Eto0Ewhite0Ehouse0Etech0Epost0C20A130C0A50C0A90C288c53660Eb8b30E11e20Eb94c0Eb684dda0A7add0Iblog0Bhtml0Dwprss0Frss0Iin0Ethe0Eloop/story01.htm</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Chatter is that the White House is bringing in some high-powered legal talent to beef up its technology shop.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;We’re told that Twitter legal director Nicole Wong, who had been vice president and deputy general counsel at Google, is to be named senior adviser to White House chief technology officer Todd Park focusing on Internet privacy and cybersecurity issues.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/post/twitter-legal-director-to-white-house-tech-post/2013/05/09/288c5366-b8b3-11e2-b94c-b684dda07add_blog.html?wprss=rss_in-the-loop"&gt;Read full article &amp;#62;&amp;#62;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636597/s/2bb63661/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;div class='mf-viral'&gt;&lt;table border='0'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign='middle'&gt;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/twitter/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Ftwitter-legal-director-to-white-house-tech-post%2F2013%2F05%2F09%2F288c5366-b8b3-11e2-b94c-b684dda07add_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Twitter+legal+director+to+White+House+tech+post" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/twitter.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/facebook/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Ftwitter-legal-director-to-white-house-tech-post%2F2013%2F05%2F09%2F288c5366-b8b3-11e2-b94c-b684dda07add_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Twitter+legal+director+to+White+House+tech+post" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/facebook.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/linkedin/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Ftwitter-legal-director-to-white-house-tech-post%2F2013%2F05%2F09%2F288c5366-b8b3-11e2-b94c-b684dda07add_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Twitter+legal+director+to+White+House+tech+post" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/linkedin.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/gplus/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Ftwitter-legal-director-to-white-house-tech-post%2F2013%2F05%2F09%2F288c5366-b8b3-11e2-b94c-b684dda07add_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Twitter+legal+director+to+White+House+tech+post" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/googleplus.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/email/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Ftwitter-legal-director-to-white-house-tech-post%2F2013%2F05%2F09%2F288c5366-b8b3-11e2-b94c-b684dda07add_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Twitter+legal+director+to+White+House+tech+post" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/email.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664197309/u/0/f/636597/c/34656/s/2bb63661/kg/342-363/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664197309/u/0/f/636597/c/34656/s/2bb63661/kg/342-363/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664197309/u/0/f/636597/c/34656/s/2bb63661/kg/342-363/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;</description><category domain="">transition</category><pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 15:30:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/post/twitter-legal-director-to-white-house-tech-post/2013/05/09/288c5366-b8b3-11e2-b94c-b684dda07add_blog.html?wprss=rss_in-the-loop</guid><dc:creator>Al Kamen</dc:creator></item><item><title>Can Harry Reid and Pete Domenici make up?</title><link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636597/s/2bb62f55/l/0L0Swashingtonpost0N0Cblogs0Cin0Ethe0Eloop0Cpost0Ccan0Eharry0Ereid0Eand0Epete0Edomenici0Emake0Eup0C20A130C0A50C0A90C32ab23480Eb8b50E11e20E92f30Ef29180A1936b80Iblog0Bhtml0Dwprss0Frss0Iin0Ethe0Eloop/story01.htm</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Hollywood has its share of high-profile breakups (are Jen and Justin really splitsville?), and here’s the Washington version: It’s all over between Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and former New Mexico senator Pete Domenici. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/post/can-harry-reid-and-pete-domenici-make-up/2013/05/09/32ab2348-b8b5-11e2-92f3-f291801936b8_blog.html?wprss=rss_in-the-loop"&gt;Read full article &amp;#62;&amp;#62;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636597/s/2bb62f55/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;div class='mf-viral'&gt;&lt;table border='0'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign='middle'&gt;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/twitter/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fcan-harry-reid-and-pete-domenici-make-up%2F2013%2F05%2F09%2F32ab2348-b8b5-11e2-92f3-f291801936b8_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Can+Harry+Reid+and+Pete+Domenici+make+up%3F" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/twitter.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/facebook/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fcan-harry-reid-and-pete-domenici-make-up%2F2013%2F05%2F09%2F32ab2348-b8b5-11e2-92f3-f291801936b8_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Can+Harry+Reid+and+Pete+Domenici+make+up%3F" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/facebook.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/linkedin/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fcan-harry-reid-and-pete-domenici-make-up%2F2013%2F05%2F09%2F32ab2348-b8b5-11e2-92f3-f291801936b8_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Can+Harry+Reid+and+Pete+Domenici+make+up%3F" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/linkedin.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/gplus/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fcan-harry-reid-and-pete-domenici-make-up%2F2013%2F05%2F09%2F32ab2348-b8b5-11e2-92f3-f291801936b8_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Can+Harry+Reid+and+Pete+Domenici+make+up%3F" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/googleplus.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/email/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-loop%2Fpost%2Fcan-harry-reid-and-pete-domenici-make-up%2F2013%2F05%2F09%2F32ab2348-b8b5-11e2-92f3-f291801936b8_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_in-the-loop&amp;t=Can+Harry+Reid+and+Pete+Domenici+make+up%3F" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/email.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664196392/u/0/f/636597/c/34656/s/2bb62f55/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664196392/u/0/f/636597/c/34656/s/2bb62f55/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664196392/u/0/f/636597/c/34656/s/2bb62f55/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;</description><pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 14:59:06 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/post/can-harry-reid-and-pete-domenici-make-up/2013/05/09/32ab2348-b8b5-11e2-92f3-f291801936b8_blog.html?wprss=rss_in-the-loop</guid><dc:creator>Emily Heil</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>
