<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Politics</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics?nav=rss_politics</link><description>Politics</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Lobbyist Paid for DeLay's Airfare]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12416-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_politics</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12416-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_politics</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 12:24:27 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[House ethics rules bar lawmakers from accepting travel and related expenses from registered lobbyists. The House Majority Leader has said that his expenses on a 2000 trip were paid by a nonprofit organization, and that the financial arrangements for it were proper.]]></description><author> R. Jeffrey Smith</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Panel to Start Writing Social Security Bill]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12498-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_politics</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12498-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_politics</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 12:24:27 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Five months after President Bush launched his drive to overhaul Social Security, the difficult, if not impossible, task of drafting legislation begins Tuesday when the Senate Finance Committee holds the first hearing on options to secure Social Security's future.]]></description><author> Jonathan Weisman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[DNC Is Told Where to Move Into Bush Bloc]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12440-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_politics</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12440-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_politics</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 12:24:27 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Howard Dean's Democratic National Committee has been studying the electorate, and the party's problem with voters of faith is both worse and better than he feared.]]></description><author> Dan Balz</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[U.S. Loan Proposed to Rescue Alaska Power Plant]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12419-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_politics</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12419-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_politics</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 12:24:27 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Years ago, the federal government spent $117 million on an experimental "clean coal" power plant in Alaska designed to generate electricity with a minimum of air pollution  --  but the project never got up and running.]]></description><author> Justin Blum</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Talk Shows]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12393-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_politics</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12393-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_politics</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 12:24:27 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  <em>Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:</em>]]></description><author></author></item></channel></rss>