Life for members of the House of Representatives was not easy. Strictly speaking, a president had never directly emerged from the House of Representatives!
From the founding of the federation to the present, there had never been a record of a representative running for election and winning.
Presidents often came from governors, senators, and party nominations, and representatives were not among them!
This also showed how awkward the status of representatives was in federal politics!
To say that representatives were nobodies—they were members of Congress after all, and they still had power, at least when they needed to raise their hands, every vote mattered! Moreover, there were many committees in Congress, and representatives were also an important part of them.
But if you really wanted to say how remarkable these representatives were...
Except for the fact that no president had directly emerged from them, most of the time they could not more effectively make decisive votes.
Unless they were willing to trade their future for so-called freedom and justice!
And even if they joined various committees, the positions they held were often lower-to-middle-level jobs, considered hard labor.
Coupled with the fast turnover rate of representatives, unlike some senators, whose backsides stayed planted in their seats for six, eight, or even ten or a dozen years!
So most representatives, during their first year after entering the Capitol Building, had to find their footing and find themselves a patron who could shield them from the wind and rain!
Senator Landon currently had more than a dozen representatives working for him, so calling him the soul of the "Landon Gang" was not wrong.
Yet to say how powerful this "Landon Gang" was, that was not entirely the case.
At least there were no senators in it, nor any other important politicians, so its