In other news: Debt-limit debate isn’t only story on Capitol Hill
In recent years, Congress has appeared to lurch from one major legislative drama or crisis to the next, with little room for subplots. But even as the debt-ceiling debate hogged the focus on Capitol Hill in recent weeks, the House and the Senate managed to do — or not do — at least a few other notable things, any one of which might have been a bigger story under other circumstances. So if you're just reemerging from the debt-limit cave, here's what you missed:
● Rep. David Wu (D-Ore.) announced he would resign after it was reported that a young woman had called his office alleging that she had an "unwanted sexual encounter" with him. That actually did manage to make the news even amid the debt debate. But the relatively small amount of coverage Wu received compared with that of then-Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) two months earlier was striking, particularly because the allegations against Wu are potentially much more serious.
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