Washington Watch: Rep. Lewis hits campaign trail -- everywhere

"They want me on the weekends to visit the churches," he told me on a phone call from the road, "but you know, there's only so many Sundays."

Who says there's no bipartisanship in Congress?

Newsflash: Georgia's most liberal and most conservative congressmen are working together.

Recently, congressmen from both sides of the political aisle teamed on the unusual issue of more federal AIDS funding for the state.

In a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, the representatives complain that Georgia got shortchanged when the department distributed about $25 million to states in August.

Signatories include Democratic Reps. Hank Johnson of Lithonia, Lewis and David Scott of Atlanta, John Barrow of Savannah and Sanford Bishop of Albany.

On the other side of the aisle, conservative Republican Reps. Tom Price of Roswell, John Linder of Lawrenceville and Paul Broun of Athens also signed.

According to the unusual cabal of congressmen, Georgia got $731,614 in emergency supplemental funding for the Ryan White AIDS Drug Assistance Program.

But the state should have gotten much more, the congressmen contend, since the state's waiting list for AIDS drug funds is the second largest in the country, they say, with more than 550 people waiting for help to buy the life-sustaining drugs.

"While we understand that [AIDS funding programs] throughout the country are in financial crisis, it is difficult for us to grasp how nine states would qualify for a larger share of funding than Georgia," they wrote.

In their letter, the congressmen demand Sebelius provide details on how the funding allocations were made and more details on why Georgia didn't rank higher on the priority list.

Rep. Scott on CREW's naughty list -- still

Rep. Scott recently landed on a list he never wanted to be on: the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington's 26 Most Corrupt Members of Congress list.

It doesn't appear to be as damning as the perp-walk-like carousel of mugshots that appears on CREW's website might seem, however.

CREW picked Scott and others from a list of investigations it has conducted over the years that they say found wrongdoing, even thought the House and Senate ethics committees never did anything about the cases.

Scott was included in a 2007 CREW investigation for allegedly failing to pay federal income taxes and for what the group said was misuse of official resources for political campaigning.

Michael Andel, Scott's chief of staff, said the tax issue involved Scott's wife's company and that it is in a payment plan with the IRS to pay back taxes. The other claims, he said, were based on complaints from a disgruntled former employee and never amounted to anything.

Either way, Andel added, the story is old news. He faulted CREW for dredging it up again, three years later.

"Talk about dusting off an old dead story just in time for Halloween," Andel said. "This story is wrong and outdated in so many ways."

At CREW, executive director Melanie Sloan said the point wasn't to poke Scott again as much as it was to criticize the House and Senate ethics committees that have done nothing to address the claims against Scott and others.

"Our point was that the [ethics committees] allow corruption to go on unchallenged, and you see people like David Scott never held accountable because of it," she said.