Legislating from the Middle

WASHINGTON - It was an early summer afternoon and already the headlines were screaming. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., had suffered a "striking" defeat, "capitulating" to Senate Republicans on a plan to send emergency funding to the U.S./Mexico border, "infuriating"... Read More

WASHINGTON — Elected to Congress in 2016 after a career spent mostly in the private sector, Rep. Stephanie Murphy, D-Fla., was bound to see things from a decidedly nonpartisan perspective when she got to the nation's Capitol a few weeks... Read More

WASHINGTON — A smile spread across Rep. Derek Kilmer's face. Chairman of the New Democrat Coalition, the largest caucus of centrist Democrats in the House, he'd just been asked how one can break through all the hyper-partisan noise in the... Read More

WASHINGTON — Rep. John Katko, R-N.Y., makes no bones about how he feels about things. Still as straight and direct as he was during his years as a prosecutor of organized crime in the U.S. Attorney's Office in Syracuse, Katko,... Read More

WASHINGTON — Rodney Davis thought he knew what he was in for. After 16 years on the staff of Rep. John Shimkus, R-Ill., the Des Moines, Iowa, native "had some preconceived notions" about how to get things done. But after... Read More