Obama Alumni Return to Washington as House Freshmen

By artappraiser on Sun, 11/25/2018 - 5:48pm |

By Catie Edmondson & Sheryl Gay Stolberg @ NYTimes.com, Nov. 25

[...] Nearly a dozen members of the House’s incoming class are far from being gawky freshmen, stumbling wide-eyed through the strange corridors of Capitol Hill, but are instead experienced policymakers who have worked in previous presidential administrations — seven of them for former President Barack Obama. Their return to Washington is, in part, a way to undo what they see as the unspooling of the values and legacy of the nation’s 44th president [....]

But in a freshman class where confrontation, not cooperation, could be most prized, it is not clear whether the Washington veterans will assume leadership roles or take a back seat to younger, brasher freshmen like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota [....]

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/25/us/politics/house-democrats-obama-administration.html