All Politics Is No Longer Local - Rep. Tom Davis and Rep. Martin Frost - POLITICO Magazine. The following is an excerpt from The Partisan Divide: Congress in Crisis, written by former Republican Rep.
Tom Davis, former Democratic Rep. Martin Frost and Richard E. Cohen. The first section of this article was written by Davis. The second section, marked as such, is Frost’s response. Tip O’Neill, the legendary Democratic House Speaker of the 70s and 80s, devotes a chapter of his book Man of the House to the title, “All Politics is Local.” O’Neill goes on to note that the lesson also applies to Congress: “You can be the most important congressman in the country, but you had better not forget the people back home.” But, as the saying goes, “that was then and this is now.”
It would be hard to find members of Congress more in tune with their constituencies than Democrat Gene Taylor from Mississippi’s Gulf Coast. Hurricane Katrina struck a devastating blow to his district and to Taylor himself. But after 20 years, Taylor had gotten careless. What happened to Gene Taylor? All Politics Is No Longer Local - Rep. Tom Davis and Rep. Martin Frost - POLITICO Magazine. The following is an excerpt from The Partisan Divide: Congress in Crisis, written by former Republican Rep.
Tom Davis, former Democratic Rep. Martin Frost and Richard E. Cohen. The first section of this article was written by Davis. The second section, marked as such, is Frost’s response. Tip O’Neill, the legendary Democratic House Speaker of the 70s and 80s, devotes a chapter of his book Man of the House to the title, “All Politics is Local.” O’Neill goes on to note that the lesson also applies to Congress: “You can be the most important congressman in the country, but you had better not forget the people back home.”
But, as the saying goes, “that was then and this is now.” It would be hard to find members of Congress more in tune with their constituencies than Democrat Gene Taylor from Mississippi’s Gulf Coast. Hurricane Katrina struck a devastating blow to his district and to Taylor himself. But after 20 years, Taylor had gotten careless. Is Jeb Bush Too Liberal To Win The Republican Nomination In 2016? On Tuesday, former Florida Gov.
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Yesterday we got an answer — and it demonstrates how the state's huge House of Representatives is so very representative, so responsive to shifts in public mood. After giving Republicans a three-to-one majority in the House and Senate in 2010, voters have swung the other way.
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