Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Pérez of Washington was one of six Democrats who voted with Republicans on Nov. 12 to clear a short-term spending measure ending a six-week stalemate to reopen the government. President Donald Trump’s signature ended the longest partial government shutdown in U.S. history — which Gluesenkamp Pérez referred to as a “partisan car crash.”

A moderate Democrat who co-chairs the Blue Dog Coalition, she has frequently bucked her party. She supported an earlier version of the GOP-led spending patch before the shutdown began, although she missed the Sept. 19 passage vote in the House. In a statement explaining her November vote, Gluesenkamp Pérez accused lawmakers of being more concerned with scoring partisan points than with helping constituents. “The last several wee

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