{"id":4610,"date":"2025-01-08T20:03:48","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T20:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/meet-the-new-members-a-familiar-washington-face-heads-to-capitol-hill\/"},"modified":"2025-01-08T20:03:48","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T20:03:48","slug":"meet-the-new-members-a-familiar-washington-face-heads-to-capitol-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/meet-the-new-members-a-familiar-washington-face-heads-to-capitol-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the new members: A familiar Washington face heads to Capitol Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The new member: <\/b>Rep. Maggie Goodlander (D-N.H.)<\/p>\n

How they got here: <\/b>Goodlander dispatched Republican Lily Tang Williams, who previously ran for Congress from Colorado, 53 percent to 47 percent.<\/p>\n

Inside the campaign: <\/b>Goodlander survived a brutal Democratic primary over Colin Van Ostern, the 2016 Democratic governor nominee in New Hampshire and the pick of retiring Rep. Ann McLane Kuster (D-N.H.), to become her party\u2019s standard bearer for this purple seat.<\/p>\n

Goodlander, a veteran of multiple Washington institutions who is married to President Joe Biden\u2019s national security adviser Jake Sullivan, centered her campaign around a vow to be a \u201cworkhorse\u201d in Washington. \u201cWhether you voted for me or not, if I have the honor of representing you, I will work for you \u2014 all of you \u2014 in the people\u2019s house,\u201d she said at her election night victory celebration.<\/p>\n

The issues she\u2019ll focus on:<\/b> Goodlander highlighted a highly personal story of giving birth to a stillborn son throughout her time on the trail, making protecting access to reproductive health care a central part of her campaign.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s also vowed to fight for health care, tax reform, and housing access \u2014 and to take on corporate monopolies.<\/p>\n

Background:<\/b> She\u2019s held a wide variety of visible roles in Washington, including a Supreme Court clerk stint, a job as an attorney with the Department of Justice and time as a Biden White House aide. Earlier in her tenure, Goodlander served as a Capitol Hill aide to then-Sens. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.).<\/p>\n

In addition, Goodlander served as an aide for the House Judiciary Committee<\/a> during the first impeachment trial against President Donald Trump, authoring a 55-page report outlining the constitutional grounds for impeaching the president. (She\u2019ll join a fellow impeachment trial lawyer, New York Democrat Dan Goldman, as a member of Congress.)<\/p>\n

Campaign ad that caught our eye: <\/b>Goodlander released an ad touting her efforts<\/a> to work with Democrats and Republicans on a variety of issues.<\/p>\n

Fun fact: <\/b>Her bipartisan bona fides are quite personal \u2014 Goodlander\u2019s grandfather, Samuel Tamposi, was a Republican megadonor and partial owner of the Boston Red Sox. Her mother, Betty Tamposi, was a GOP member of the state House of Representatives and an aide to then-President George H.W. Bush.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re spotlighting new members during the transition. Want more? <\/i>Meet Sen. Tim Sheehy<\/i><\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The new member: Rep. Maggie Goodlander (D-N.H.) How they got here: Goodlander dispatched Republican Lily Tang Williams, who previously ran for Congress from Colorado, 53 percent to 47 percent. Inside the campaign: Goodlander survived a brutal Democratic primary over Colin Van Ostern, the 2016 Democratic governor nominee in New Hampshire and the pick of retiring […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}