After years of partisan feuding, California's new generation of Congress members tries to get along. Will it work?
Los Angeles Times -

Over homemade tacos at a Capitol Hill row home, several of California's members of Congress did something unusual last year: they gathered for a bipartisan, home-cooked meal where politics were not on the menu. The table full of Republicans and Democrats represented an opening salvo in a push by some of the state's newest representatives to build collegiality and cross party work in a place that in recent years has supported neither. “We just sit down and break bread and get to know each other,”...

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