30 years of solid work on Capitol Hill couldn’t save a good man’s seat
The House of Representatives wastes no sympathy on defeated members. At the beginning of the week, Jim Leach of Iowa sat in an office almost devoid of furniture, the walls stripped bare of the mementos of his …
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