In an email to subscribers today, pay-by-phone parking app Parkmobile admitted that maybe it was a little simplistic to pin an increase in transaction fees on financial reform legislation passed by Congress.

Yesterday Parkmobile blamed Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) for an increase in transaction fees that’s hitting users of the pay-by-phone parking app. Today, Durbin fired back, saying that it’s credit card companies that are to blame.

DCPS released the video footage above today of Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.) touring Shaw Middle School at Garnet-Patterson last week with D.C Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee. Durbin and Miller, both of whom are active on education reform issues in Congress, met with students and teachers as they sought insight from the school regarding the implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act, which is soon up for re-authorization. They…