Obama’s Legislative Director: A Latino No One Knows, Yet

By Philip Rucker, Washington Post

Miguel Rodriguez is President Obama’s new director of legislative affairs. That makes him the president’s Congress whisperer and arm-twister, tasked with convincing Republican lawmakers of the virtues of Obama’s agenda.

Yet six weeks into the job, many of the Republicans Rodriguez needs to lobby hardly know anything about him. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s aides say they haven’t met him yet. House Speaker John A. Boehner’s aides say they have no basis to judge him by because they’ve talked with him just once. And the word from House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s office? They don’t know him.

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