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Wendell Primus, the most powerful healthcare staffer in Congress, represents a generational divide on the left

By The Intercept  
   April 10, 2019

The remark drifted quietly past nearly all political watchers, but inside Congress, it reverberated like a patch of rolling thunder. “I’m not worried what Wendell thinks,” said Mark Pocan, D-Wisc., the co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, in February. “When he gets elected to Congress, it’ll matter.”

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