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Capuano: A Washington Insider, Unknown At Home

BOSTON — Mike Capuano has just left a Democratic caucus on health care in the new underground Capitol Visitors’ Center. Most members of Congress walk the corridors back to their offices, but Capuano takes advantage of the Washington weather, much balmier than Boston’s this time of year, by going outside.

Someone calls, “Senator!” from a limousine.

Along my walk with him, Capuano gets several greetings like this from colleagues — Democratic and Republican — who wish him well in his Senate race. He’s clearly well known on Capitol Hill. In fact, the speaker of the House, Democrat Nancy Pelosi, picked him to strengthen ethical rules for members of Congress.

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