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Former Rep. Brad Miller will join the Washington-based Center for American Progress as a senior fellow for economic policy.

Miller, a Raleigh Democrat, will work with the housing finance and policy team on foreclosure prevention, neighborhood stabilization, and housing-finance reform, s well as on broader financial-services issues and systemic risk concerns.

“His vast experience shaping the policy debate will play a valuable role in our efforts to strengthen the middle class and grow the economy by ensuring that more Americans have access to stable and affordable housing,” said Neera Tanden, the center's president and a former staffer in the Clinton and Obama administrations.

The center is a liberal think tank formed in 2003 to be a counterweight to the conservative Heritage Foundation.

Miller served a decade in the U.S. House, representing the 13th district, but did not seek re-election, when the Republicans redrew his district to give it a strong GOP orientation. Miller served on the House Financial Services Committee where he was heavily involved in financial reform legislation.

The Democrats took time out to honor the Jamie Hahn at their Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner Saturday night in Raleigh.

The dinner was dedicated to Hahn, with a page in the eight-page program in memory of the young Democratic Party fund raiser who was slain earlier in the week.

There was a film tribute to Hahn shown featuring photographs of her set to the Beatles song “Imagine.”

“Jamie was in politics for the right reason,'' said former Congressman Brad Miller of Raleigh. Other officials, including North Carolina Sen. Kay Hagan, Massachusetts Mo Cowan, and Congressman David Price remembered her.

Many of the Democrats at the dinner attended her funeral service earlier in the day.

TILLIS SAYS LOBBYIST GIFT BAN WILL REMAIN INTACT: House Speaker Thom Tillis took to Twitter this week to declare Republican Robert Brawley's bill to lift the ban on lobbyists giving lawmakers gifts is dead. "Benny, does the fact that the bill is dead give you any idea?" @thomtillis wrote. The speaker's office confirmed the 10:10 p.m. Tuesday tweet was legit. Tillis addressed the response to Benjamin Ray, an operative at the N.C. Democratic Party pushing Tillis on the issue and tying it to his office's controversial past with lobbyists and the fact the bill came from one of his committee chairman.

MOTIVE FOR JAMIE HAHN'S STABBING TURNS TO CAMPAIGN MONEY: As the Triangle mourned slain political strategist Jamie Hahn on Wednesday, attention turned to whether the man who police say stabbed her had made questionable campaign finance reports while working for Hahn’s firm. More on the story below.

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U.S. Rep. David Price, D-Chapel Hill, and former Democratic Rep. Brad Miller of Raleigh got high marks for their legislative efforts from the N.C. League of Conservation Voters.

Each year, for the past 40 years, the group has put out an Environmental Scorecard rating members of Congress on environmental, public health and energy issues.

Three North Carolina delegates — all Democrats — received a score of 90 percent or greater last year, while five — all Republicans – scored 10 percent or less.

MUST READ: First Lady Ann McCrory shuns the public spotlight. From the story: Ann McCrory hasn’t fully embraced McCrory's political career. Nor has she opposed it. Now, after her husband’s three city council terms, seven terms as mayor and two tries at the governor’s office, she has moved into a late 19th century mansion at the center of government for a state of more than 9 million people. There, the demands on her time – and the questions about her own life and marriage – will immeasurably grow. However, those who know the new first lady say there are no guarantees that her public role will grow right along with them.

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Raleigh Congressman Brad Miller, a Democrat, on his way out the door as a casaulty of the GOP redistricting, offered his thoughts about how bad the gridlock has become in a recent Slate piece.

Miller wrote: "When did I know that this current Congress would be rough? Election Night 2010. I thought in late November and December, in the lame duck after the 2010 election, I thought the Obama administration was wildly unrealistic about how it could get along with the new Congress. They’d been inside the Beltway bubble and had no idea how extreme the Tea Party folks were, and that part of the Tea Party ethic was: Never compromise. They felt betrayed by people like Bob Bennett, Dick Lugar, Lisa Murkowski, and even Orrin Hatch—though he’s changed that tendency—who compromise."

Read more about his disappointments with the Obama administration and his self-proclaimed Blue Dog status (despite his progressive reputation) here.

Democratic Congressman Brad Miller said Tuesday that the Republicans are waging class warfare on the middle class.

Speaking to the North Carolina delegation at a breakfast Tuesday, he said the GOP wants to cut taxes on corporations and the wealthy while vowing to cut programs that help the middle class such as Medicare Social Security and Medicaid. 

Democratic Rep. Brad Miller and Republican Sen. Richard Burr will speak at the screening of "Semper Fi: Always Faithful'' at the N.C. Museum of History on Tuesday.

The film chronicles the effort by Marine Sgt. Jerry Ensminger to uncover one of the largest groundwater contaminations in history at Marine CropsBase Camp Lejeune. Ensminger's nine-year old daughter died of a rare leukemia.

The film will be shown at 7 p.m. And Miller and Burr are scheduled to make remarks at 8:30 p.m.

President Barack Obama is scheduled to sign a bill into law Monday that seeks to provide hospital care and medical coverage for certain illnesses linked to toxic chemicals in the water for Camp Lejeune Marines and their families.

U.S. Rep. Brad Miller will be showing British Member of Parliament John Healey around Raleigh on Friday and Saturday as part of an exchange program that sends British MPs to the states to meet their counterparts in the U.S. House.

Healey, a member of the Labour Party, accompanied Miller, a Raleigh Democrat, to meetings in Washington on Thursday. On Friday, they're touring affordable housing in Raleigh, meeting with AFL-CIO members, touring the Center for Architecture and Design building project, and the Nature Research Center.

The housing and design stops may be of particular interest to the MP, who was Minister for State Housing and Planning.  The exchange is meant to have the British visitors experience pluralism and regional diversity, discuss domestic and foreign policy issues, and examine the media in the political process.

Pausing to watch the Olympics isn't on their official schedule, but maybe they'll run into Tim Pawlenty, who is coming to town for some political events this weekend.

On Saturday, Miller and Healey are headed to the State Farmers Market, the State Capitol, the N.C. Museum of History, and the Raleigh-Apex NAACP Freedom Fund Banquet.

Healey's visit is arranged through the U.S. State Department. Boston is his next stop.

Gov. Bev Perdue is a no show at the N.C. Democratic Party's Jefferson-Jackson dinner, it's big annual fundraiser. "She's sick as a dog," explained Congressman Brad Miller of Raleigh. Perdue attended the Saturday morning women's breakfast but left sick. 

In her absence, Miller touted Perdue. Everyone "should be proud of the backbone Bev has shown in the last 3 1/2 years but especially in the last year and a half," he said referencing her battles with the Republican-led legislature. "I wish every Democrat in the nation was as tough as Bev Perdue."

The kind words should help Perdue recuperate, especially after she received this news Friday.