Marianna Sotomayor reports on Democratic and Republican lawmakers in the House of Representatives for The Washington Post. She covers the ideological, cultural and personality-based tensions that animate the policy and political debates unfolding on Capitol Hill. Before joining The Post in 2021, Sotomayor spent five years at NBC News, where she covered Congress and Joe Biden's presidential campaign.

Even though political journalism was always on display in my home growing up, I did not realize that’s what I wanted to do until teachers and friends began to tell me I was a skilled writer. I think the idea of journalism clicked when I was a preteen -- and an avid fan of boy bands and saw that people had jobs just asking questions to my favorite celebrities. But it took a trip to Washington, D.C., in high school to make me realize that political journalism was it for me.

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