simple things like pass a budget or raise the debt ceiling spiral into criseses. partisan war fare is the norm. which is why a story about two congress mann men working to build a relationship is a political odd couple if there was one. jason chaffetz is a mormon republican from utah who has investigated the white house on issues from benghazi to the irs. also elijah cummings, the baptist democrat from baltimore who s considered one of the president s top allies in the house oversight committee. chaffetz spent a day with cummings touring his district in maryland and speaking to his constituents, a place where president obama dominated with 75% of the vote. as the washington post or thes in a washington fully engulfed in partisan warfare, the buddy day was an anomalous throwback to a time when members of congress of different political parties spent time together off the clock and liked one another.
an extent that trying to do simple things like pass a budget or raise the debt ceiling spiral into criseses. partisan warfa fare is the norm. which is why a story about two congress mann men working to build a relationship is a political odd couple if there was one. jason chaffetz is a mormon republican from utah who has investigated the white house on issues from benghazi to the irs. also elijah cummings, the baptist democrat from baltimore who s considered one of the president s top allies in the house oversight committee. chaffetz spent a day with cummings touring his district in maryland and speaking to his constituents, a place where president obama dominated with 75% of the vote. as the washington post or thes in a washington fully engulfed in partisan warfare, the buddy day was an anomalous throwback to a time when members of congress of different political