 Capital Steps today is what started off, over a decade ago, as co-workers entertaining
each other at a Capitol Hill Christmas party has since turned into a Washington institution.
Capitol Steps, whose cast members are all either current or former congressional
staffers, provide an amazingly clever, politically-oriented musical revue that is sure to liven up any
convention gathering.
The Capitol Steps, the only group in America that attempts to be funnier than Congress,
is a troupe of former Congressional staffers who travel the country satirizing the very people that once
employed them. Over the past 16 years Capital Steps has recorded 17 albums, including five during
the Clinton Administration: Sixteen Scandals, Return to Center, A Whole Newt World, Lord of the Fires
and The Joy of Sax. Other releases included: 76 Bad Loans, We Arm the World, Stand By Your Dan, and
Fools on the Hill.
The Capitol Steps perform over three hundred shows-a-year nationwide,
from Pasadena to Pensacola and everywhere in between. The Capital Steps have been featured on three
national specials for public television, Good Morning America, Entertainment Tonight, Nightline,
The Today Show, 20/20, CBS Morning News, ABC's World News Tonight, NBC Nightly News, and dozens of
times on National Public Radio's All Things Considered. They currently produce, with KCRW, quarterly
specials for public radio stations nationwide, and they've been regularly featured on CNN's Inside
Politics.
All members of the cast have worked on Capitol Hill; for Democrats, Republicans
and, and politicians who sit on the fence. Thanks to the scandals and screw-ups of our elected
officials, there's never a shortage of material. Says Elaina Newport, co-founder and performer,
"Typically the Republicans goof up, and the Democrats party. Then the Democrats goof up and
the Republicans party. That's what we call the two-party system." Many stars and politicians,
some of whom have been targets themselves, have performed with the troupe: Vice President Al Gore,
Larry King, Pat Robertson, Surgeon General Koop, Mike Dukakis, and President Bush to name a few.
In fact the Capitol Steps have performed for Presidents Ford, Reagan, Bush, and Clinton.
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