- Congress Goes Home, and Constituents Fired Up Over Health Care Are Waiting New York Times by By Kate Zernike and Alexander Burns—As Republican lawmakers prepare to leave Washington for a weeklong congressional recess, liberal groups and Democratic Party organizers are hoping to make their homecoming as noisy and uncomfortable as possible. But national organizers concede they are playing catch-up to a "dam-bursting level" of grassroots activism that has bubbled up from street protests and the small groups that have swelled into crowds outside local congressional offices.
