James Kanka

This is a list I put together while working at The Washington Bureau… if you read it you’ll be able to tell how big a dork I am. “Hit With” means I shot a live interview for FOX, MSNBC or CNBC.

Famous

Met
Hillary Clinton – Shook hands with and have seen several times
Barak Obama – Shook hands, went into office and seen on capitol hill
Nacy Pelosi – Seen several times and shot an interview in her office for “To the Contrary” w/ Erbe
Tucker Carlson – Picture and met… rode down elevator with
Bob Dole – Met
Colin Mockeri – took a picture of him with Gary at RTCA Dinner
Dan Rather – Said a few words to him while cleaning up after a hit
Kenneth Mclintock (President of Puerto Rican Senate) – Met and shook hand, live hit
Chrissy Gephardt – for the Daily Show
Ben Stein – spoke with him on the Elevator in our building on his way to Fox
Jewel – Cannon Rotunda for a RNN interview
Mia Farrow – Met and shook hands with as we did an RNN interview, Very Nice–a little spacey. 11/16/07
Tony Snow – Came in for a live studio hit for FOX my last week at TWB. I asked him how his cancer was and he said he was doing alright and that he was taking pills and waiting for treatment to progress. He had great hope that in 3-4 years technology will have been advanced enough to cure his cancer. I mentioned that working at the White House must have been stressful but he said, “No, It was the most fun I ever had at a job.”

Just Seen
President Bush – Made eye contact, picture, and waved and got thumbs up back at RTCA dinner
Vice President Cheney – Walking through the capitol to the State of the Union
Christina Ricci – saw coming out of building (made eye contact)
Brian McKnight – Saw him walking into Cannon for James Brown tribute
Richard Gere – Saw in the Capitol on first day of 110th congress
Karl Rove, General Pace, Brian Willams, Bill O’Reily… (RTCA Dinner)
Anderson Cooper – saw the first day of 110th congress in the Cannon Rotunda
Chris Mathews – (several times) Rode elevator with, and got in the background of Hardball.
Carlos Ghosen (CEO of Nissan)
Geraldo Rivera – Press Conference
Rob Lowe – walked past me in Rayburn while waiting for an elevator
Hayden Panettiere – In 400 N Capitol and Gary and I stopped in on her Press Conference for the whales
Paul Simon – Outside the Cannon Office building, he was looking old and I wasn’t sure who it was at first. I thought he looked a lot like Paul Simon.. he was. I was within arms reach and I got a smile.

Senators:
Hit with
Barbara Boxer
Tom Coburn
John Cornyn
Chris Dodd
Byron Dorgan
Richard Durbin
John Ensign
Lindsey Graham
Chuck Grassley
Judd Gregg
Chuck Hagel
Orrin Hatch
Kay Baliey Hutchison
John Isakson
Ted Kennedy
Jon Kyl
Mary Landrieu
Frank Lautenberg
Patrick Leahy
Joe Lieberman
Trent Lott
Mitch McConnell
Robert Menendez
Ben Nelson
Bill Nelson
Mark Pryor
Jack Reed
Ken Salazar
Jeff Sessions
Richard Shelby
Gordon Smith
Snowe
John Thune
George Voinovich

Seen around
John Kerry
John McCain
Harry Reid

Represenatives:
Hit with
Pelosi, Nancy
Hoyer, Steny
Boehner, John
Putnam, Adam
Abercrombie, Neil
Bilbray, Brian P.
Bishop, Tim
Cantor, Eric
Cooper, Jim
Engel, Elliot
Frank, Barney
Hoekstra, Peter
Hunter, Duncan
Kucinich, Dennis J.
King, Peter T.
Larson, John
Lowey, Nita
Lungren, Daniel E.
Maloney, Carolyn
McHenry, Patrick
Michaud,
Moran, James P
Murphy, Patrick J.
Paul, Ron
Pierce, Steve
Poe, Ted
Rangel, Charlie
Rohrabacher, Dana
Rogers, Mike
Ros-Lehtinen, Ilena
Shays, Christopher
Shadegg, John B.
Shuler, Heath
Skelton, Ike
Smith, Adam
Spratt, John M. Jr.
Tancredo, Thomas G.
Wamp, Zack
Waxman, Henry A.
Wolf, Frank R.