While Congressman Shomari Figures is still hanging pictures to decorate his office in the Cannon Building, the freshman lawmaker has already pursued legislation on key issues in his district: health care and infrastructure.

Many times, he’s working across the aisle to address those issues.

“It’s a necessary part of the job,” Figures, D-Mobile, told Alabama Daily News, sitting at his desk in Washington during an interview before the August recess.

“At the end of the day, we came here to try to get results, and we’re going to do what it takes to do that, obviously, without sacrificing our morals or our foundational core beliefs.”

He’s done that by introducing the Rural Hospital Stabilization Act , co-sponsored by Republican Rep. Brian Jack of Georgia and most of Alabama’s House delegat

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