Senators wanted Eric Ueland to be their parliamentarian after he wowed them with his encyclopedic knowledge of Senate rules. But President Trump’s new legislative liaison passed on the umpire job, setting instead a course for one of the hardest and highest profile positions in D.C.
Former colleagues say there’s no one better to sell Trump’s agenda in a sharply divided Congress, describing Ueland’s familiar face and decades studying and greasing legislative gears as ideal for working with House Democrats hostile to Trump.
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