To the tune of more than $1 billion in spending.

Chris Cox spends every day in the halls of the House of Representatives trying to get a bill passed.

According to a tweet from Nationals PR, the game “has been postponed and will be made up as split doubleheader” tomorrow at 1:05 p.m. and 7:05 p.m.

New options include lentil soup, bison hot dogs, grass-fed beef, black-bean sliders and fish tacos.

A number of local parks will be affected by federal budget cuts that could take place next week.

The 2011 Solar Decathlon — which had been uprooted from its regular National Mall location and heavily rumored to be taking place at National Harbor — won’t have to move too far, after all. According to a letter sent to sponsors of the event by the Department of Energy, the Decathlon will be taking place this fall in West Potomac Park, on the banks of the Potomac River and along the path between the Lincoln and Jefferson Memorials.

Photo by Amber Wilkie Photography In case you hadn’t noticed: this weekend has been a bit of bedlam for traveling on the Metro. Lumping together the severing of the Orange/Blue lines at the Foggy Bottom station, several track disruptions and a body found on the Farragut North tracks, a relaxing three-day weekend is not the first notion to come to mind. Unfortunately, those of us already looking forward to the next federal holiday in…

Let’s say you want to stage a protest in Meridian Hill Park. Since its part of the National Park system, judges with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia say that’s just fine and dandy — and you shouldn’t even need to obtain a permit to do so. The National Park Service and the Department of Justice, however, aren’t necessarily in agreement with that decision. They are considering filing an appeal to the Court’s decision, and have until September 27 to do so.