Who Paid for Your Party, Madam Speaker?

(By Jonathan Allen and Jake Sherman, POLITICO.com) - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office is being coy about who paid for a party Wednesday that celebrated the “accomplishments of the 111th Congress.”

The event, according to an invitation obtained by POLITICO, was in the Cannon Caucus Room Wednesday afternoon. It was closed press, and invited guests were “advocacy groups.”

When asked who paid for it, Nadeam Elshami, a spokesman for the California Democrat, declined to reveal who was footing the bill.

“No taxpayer funds or lobbyist money paid for the meeting,” Elshami said in an email to POLITICO.

When pressed further, Elshami said “No taxpayer or lobbyist. What more do you want?”