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Recent Episodes

  • Capitol Steps: July 4th Edition Wednesday, 07/04/12 7pm

    The Capitol Steps return on July 4th for another edition of Politics Takes A Holiday.

    Listen at 7pm.

  • Politics Takes a Holiday Saturday, 12/31/11 4pm Help us ring in 2012 by making fun of 2011 with The Capitol Steps and their annual year-in-review awards ceremony called "Politics Takes a Holiday!"
  • Capitol Steps: Politics Takes A Holiday Halloween Edition Monday, 10/31/11 6pm It's official! The Capitol Steps' bond rating is higher than the US Government's! If that wasn't scary enough, The Capitol Steps will be performing their Halloween edition of "Politics Takes a Holiday" Monday at 6! Post your comment
  • Politics Takes A Holiday: July 4th Edition Monday, 07/04/11 6pm Celebrate July 4th with the Capital Steps and their Politics Takes A Holiday special.
  • The Capitol Steps: April Fool's Edition! Friday, 04/01/11 6pm Listen to the Capitol Steps' Politics Takes A Holiday - April Fool's Edition - Friday at 6pm on VPR!
  • Capitol Steps: Politics Takes A Holiday New Year's Edition 2011 Friday, 12/31/10 7pm Let's restore our honor AND our sanity and join Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, New York bed bugs, various politicians who might be witches, and many, many more as the Capitol Steps bring you their hour long year in review.
  • Capitol Steps Takes A Holiday Friday, 10/29/10 6pm

    Put down your torch and pitchfork this Halloween and join the Capitol Steps as we skewer everything left, right and wrong with the country today!

  • Politics Takes A Holiday 4th of July Edition Monday, 07/05/10 6pm Listen to Capitol Steps: Politics Takes A Holiday 4th of July Edition before Congress repeals it! It's musical satire to help you celebrate the birth of our nation.
  • Capitol Steps: Politics Takes A Holiday New Year's Edition Thursday, 12/31/09 7pm and Friday, 01/01/10 Noon Could this decade have been any longer?  Do you long for escape?  Then jump on your homemade helium balloon and join the Capitol Steps as they ring in 2010 by roasting 2009 with their annual awards ceremony!
  • Politics Takes a Holiday: Halloween Edition Friday, 10/30/09 6pm Put down your torch and pitchfork and join the Capitol Steps for Politics Takes a Holiday. Enjoy this listener favorite as they musically skewer everything left, right and wrong with the country today!
  • Politics Takes a Holiday: July 4th Friday, 07/03/09 6pm Tune in to hear Mark Sanford, Joe Biden, Arlen Spector, and several Somali pirates as, once again, Politics Takes a Holiday with The Capitol Steps.
  • Celebrate April Fool's Day with The Capitol Steps Wednesday, 04/01/09 6pm You'd be a fool not to tune in for The Capitol Steps' "Politics Takes a Holiday." Celebrate April Fool's with this troupe of current and former Congressional staffers, irreverently singing their way through the financial crisis and other current events.

About Capitol Steps

The Capitol Steps began as a group of Senate staffers who set out to satirize the very people and places that employed them.

In the years that followed, many of the Steps ignored conventional wisdom ("Don't quit your day job!"), and although not all of the current members of the Steps are former Capitol Hill staffers, taken together the performers have worked in a total of eighteen Congressional offices and represent 62 years of collective House and Senate staff experience.

Since they began, the Capitol Steps have recorded 29 albums, including their latest, Obama Mia. They've been featured on NBC, CBS, ABC, and PBS, and can be heard four times a year on National Public Radio stations nationwide during their Politics Takes a Holiday radio specials.

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