New congressional members come to Harvard
In just a few weeks, the days of walking around town unnoticed will be over. There will be many more urgent demands and requests for time than there are hours in the day. And any decisions made will have consequences on people’s lives. The women and men who had never before run for Congress, or any office, but emerged victorious from the 2018 midterm elections are about to find out, in real time, just what they signed up for. To help ease that transition, the Institute of Politics (IOP) hosted its longstanding bipartisan orientation program for new members of Congress at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) this week. Sixty-three soon-to-be House representatives from both parties spent three days meeting Harvard students and faculty and each other, as well as learning more about a host of major issues, theoretical and practical, that they’ll confront when they’re sworn in as members of the 116th Congress...