COP on the Hill: Stories from the weeks of December 12 and 19, 2025
Posted December 31st, 2025 by hiwayhowieStories from the weeks of December 12 and 19, 2025
Karma: moving from one presentation to the next, I happened to have a long (7 minute) chat and average (2 minute) chat with 2 House Members.
Why?: Riding up the subway escalator near the Capitol, I heard a voice ask “why? ‘….she was a staffer and we ended up having an 8-minute, full presentation on the sidewalk outside Cannon..The $70 COP message jacket pays dividends every day.
Cowgirls need a hat: The speaker started her presentation telling us how there were plenty of cowgirls in her Plains State. After 30 seconds I lifted my 10-gallon cowboy off the table, offering to let her wear it…the room erupted in laughter.
Celebrate One Day, then back to work: As I am sure you read, President Trump ordered his people to move cannabis to a schedule 3, legal substance. This will generate movement in the States which have been recalcitrant to touch the issue…now back to work to move it to a descheduled drug/10th Amendment controlled policy. BTW, this is the biggest, positive change in drug policy since the DEA formed in 1971.
Cheerful News: my new, right knee is back to 97% Thus, I have decided to continue our COP tasks in the Congress/Washington DC for 2026…I am back to 9,000 steps (my average day on the Hill is about 6,000).
Season’s greetings to you and yours, howard
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Meetings this week: 2- Grover Norquist right of center meetings
403 personal chats with a Member of Congress… 02 this week. Rep Schakowsky (D-IL) and Rep Grijalva (D-AZ)
7222 Presentations to Congressional staffers… 17 this week
493 chats with other elected officials, state reps, senators, VIPs, … 03 this week: Candidate for Alaska governor, candidate for the House from Texas and the treasurer from a Plain State
118 Appearances/Interviews on major TV/Radio/Print media. 01 this week =Fox News
COP stats since inception: August 2009
245 interviews and reports in minor media … 0 this week –
102 Radio Interviews: 0 this week
34 major conferences attended – CPAC 2024, (3 UN drug conferences in Vienna, Austria), LULAC, NRA, CBC, ASA, DPA, Dem & Repub. Presidential conventions., National Review, Republican Annual Retreat etc.) 0 this week
Media: Blaze TV {new, popular right-wing}, (Fox, ABC, CBS, NBC, Univision, BBC, CNN, NPR, OAN, German, Swiss, French, Spanish TV and radio) Detroit News, Detroit Free Press, Grand Rapids Press + 9 other MI papers. Chicago Tribune, Honolulu Star Advertiser {foto and caption}, Reason Magazine, Reuters, Stern
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