Reporter to Help Rep. Kennedy Write Addiction Memoir - What are the Rules?

The duo of Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.) and  Mary Ann Akers coming together to write Coming Clean, his “intimate” addiction memoir, isn’t too strange for reporters who worked on Capitol Hill when Akers worked for Roll Call‘s HOH. She and Kennedy could often be seen chatting extensively apart from the reporter pack in the Speaker’s Lobby. There was a comfort level between them that simply didn’t exist for Kennedy and some other reporters.