For embattled Wyoming Republican Rep. Liz Cheney, politics has always been a family affair.
The No. 3 member of House Republican leadership is the mother of five children, from 15 to 27 years old. Her youngest son, Richard, is named after her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney.
For the GOP congresswoman, her career in politics was pedigreed at an early age. When she was 12 years old her dad ran for Congress. Together her family campaigned across Wyoming.
“I’ve been in politics a long time. It’s in my blood,” she said last year during a speech at Georgetown University Institute of Politic and Public Service. “When my sister and I were growing up and my dad was in, you know, political office. My mom was writing, she was in the Reagan administration.”