‘All Politics Is Local’

Tom Fadden
Sep 4, 2018 · 1 min read

The United States Congress is a national legislature in Washington, D.C., with a membership of 535 locally interested and elected officials. The phrase, “all politics is local,” is a common phrase in American politics. The former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Tip O’Neill is most closely associated with this phrase.

Basically this tidbit of political wisdom means that every member of Congress must always be thinking about his or her constituents in the local House district or statewide if in the Senate. After all, it is their job to represent you in Washington!

Lawmakers care about the issues and problems affecting voters, as they should. If a national bill in Congress has local benefits, your members of Congress will want to vote to pass it. And in an upcoming electoral campaign, local news media watchdogs and opponents will check the member’s record to see how he or she voted and hold him or her accountable to voters.

The bottom line is that you as an individual voter in this or that district or state has much more power than you might have imagined.

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