Report: North Carolina has little power in the U.S. House
From The News & Observer, a story that’s pegged on veteran lawmaker Howard Coble of Greensboro. It’s all about the power North Carolina’s U.S. House delegation doesn’t have:
WASHINGTON - U.S. Rep. Howard Coble piles into the members-only subway car in a tunnel of the U.S. Capitol, all grins and how-are-ya’s with Republicans and Democrats, chatting up a storm on the way to cast a vote on the House floor.
Coble, North Carolina’s longest-serving member of Congress, has all kinds of friends. But Coble has little real power in Washington.
Really, no one in North Carolina’s House delegation does. None of the state’s 13 members can march into the House and make things happen on a broad, national scale.
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