Congress Goes Home to Face Angry Constituents

“As Republican lawmakers prepare to leave Washington for a weeklong congressional recess, liberal groups and Democratic Party organizers are hoping to make their homecoming as noisy and uncomfortable as possible,” the New York Times reports.

“But national organizers concede they are playing catch-up to a ‘dam-bursting level’ of grass-roots activism that has bubbled up from street protests and the small groups that have swelled into crowds outside local congressional offices.”