Lauren Underwood gave a lot to get where she is. Her job, being a member of Congress, was not supposed to be easy. She was among America’s public servants. Some of them were famous for it. Most were not.
Not exactly. But Lauren Underwood was here to do the job, and today, on a Friday at 11 p.m., the job was to sit in the House chamberthe end of the alphabet. So that’s what she did. She had her navy blue blanket draped over her legs. She had cough drops and hard candy in her bag. Underwood came 405th in line, about 40 minutes into each roll call, after four Johnsons, four Smiths, three Thompsons and two Torreses. Fourteen rounds of votesFour days of anxiety and confusion, waiting to be sworn in.
were famous for it. Most were not. Some put in the work, striving beyond the bare minimum. Some did not. All of them of them had done what was required to survive, to win a campaign, to secure their seats, to be one of 435. But Lauren Underwood had given something different. There were a lot of women like her. But she didn’t see manyThe truth is, she loved her job. She believed she was good at it, too.
between Reps. Matt Gaetz and Mike D. Rogers just a few rows behind. Her district, Illinois’s 14th, about an hour outside of Chicago, was competitive. The seat had once belonged to a Republican giant, the former House speaker of eight years, Dennis Hastert. Now it was Underwood’s to lose. She’d won it by five points in 2018. Two years later, the margin shrunk to 1.4 — a difference of about 5,000 votes. Her opponent had refused to accept defeat. He’d even flown to D.C. for freshman orientation.
child care on top of not just one home, in Illinois, but an apartment in Washington, on a salary of $174,000. districts went on vacation. “Fabulous, far-off trips,” she said. “Tropical, luxury” trips. “Incredible trips.” Underwood had no trips planned. She would stay at home, and she was going to “get so much done.”that is mostly White and prides itself on a “can-do” attitude, with a history of appearing on lists of the “best” and “safest” places to live and raise a family. It was an original prairie town, incorporated in 1831 on Indian lands, but much of the city has the look of being recently unboxed.
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