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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
True, although would you want to run on the legislation put forth by Conyers (Judiciary), Frank (Banking), Dingell (Energy), and Rangel (Ways and Means)?
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Don't underestimate, for example, Barney Frank's ability to put together good legislation and to hammer out reasonable compromises. I once served on a committee with him that focused on Middle East policy, and he was one of the best around at getting people with wildly divergent and often diametrically opposed views to talk productively and find some common ground.
There has been a general problem in the House of both parties electing people increasingly far from the center (Centrist Rs are more an engandered species than centrist Ds), but the Democrats, who have been the ones who needed to build broader coalitions, are the ones who have gotten better at reaching toward the center.
