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    After years of partisan feuding, California's new generation of Congress members tries to get along. Will it work?

    by Sarah D. Wire, Los Angeles Times May 06, 2024 3 minutes
    Sydney Kamlager-Dove speaks at a press conference following a House Democratic Caucus meeting at the U.S. Capitol Building on Jan. 25, 2023, in Washington, DC.

    WASHINGTON — Over homemade tacos at a Capitol Hill row home, several of California's members of Congress did something unusual last year: they gathered for a bipartisan, home-cooked meal where politics were not on the menu.

    The table full of Republicans and Democrats represented an opening salvo in a push by some of the state's newest representatives to build collegiality and cross party work in a place that in recent years has supported neither.

    "We just sit down and break bread and get to know each other," said the event's host, Rep. Jay Obernolte (R-Big

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