When Rep. Liz Cheney is not in Washington, D.C., she lives a life not all that different from her Wyoming constituents. A mother of five, she recently dropped her youngest son off at a summer camp, and one of her daughters is a rodeo barrel racer. Time away from work means skiing in the winter and hiking in the summer.

And the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney and former second lady Lynne Cheney of course likes to read. “That’s partly a function of having the parents that I have; both of them are students of American history,” she said.