Juliet Eilperin is a senior national affairs correspondent and former Congressional correspondent for the Washington Post. She is the author of Fight Club Politics: How Partisanship Is Poisoning the House of Representatives and Demon Fish: Travels through the Hidden World of Sharks.
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