The Hill News

Over the last four decades, there have been four huge classes of incoming freshmen members of the House that are historically notable.

The class of 1974 swooped in as Watergate caved in around Richard Nixon, and with it came a liberal sensibility that smashed the seniority system, opened up the political process, changed the campaign finance laws, reformed the budget process and put the intelligence community on notice that the Congress no longer had its back.

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