He acknowledged yesterday that he and his West Side colleague, Representative Ted Weiss, could be thrown into a fair-fight contest to represent the midtown area.
A Republican friend and colleague, Representative John Culberson of Texas, said Ms. Wasserman Schultz had always been congenial.
One other bright spot for Pennsylvania Democrats was the victory of Representative Tim Holden over his Republican colleague, Representative George W. Gekas.
How about his friend and former colleague Representative Mike Simpson, perhaps a bit more aligned with Mr. Otter?
He partook of a memorable doughnut fight years ago with a former colleague, Representative Harold E. Ford Sr. of Tennessee.
On the bright side for Senator McConnell, his Kentucky colleague, Representative Jim Bunning, beat Representative Scotty Baesler, a Democrat who also backed campaign finance change, in a race to replace retiring Senator Wendell H. Ford.
When Representative Carolyn McCarthy of New York introduced a measure last year to ban high-capacity magazines — used in Tucson by the gunman who shot her colleague, Representative Gabrielle Giffords, in the head — more than 130 Democrats signed on as co-sponsors.
But they add that he has not been the kind of leader in either the House or in the New York City political landscape as, say, his colleague, Representative Charles B. Rangel of Manhattan.
Expressing his own frustration with his colleague, Representative Cal Dooley, a Democrat whose district borders Mr. Condit's to the south, said today that Mr. Condit owed his constituents and the Levy family much more than he delivered on Thursday night.
An upstate New York colleague, Representative Amo Houghton, even sympathized a bit with the Gore campaign, saying "If I were behind, I would try to pick over the votes as long as I could".
Ms. Harman and a Republican colleague, Representative Dave Reichert of Washington, are drafting a measure that would direct Congress to form a commission to develop a strategy for preventing such radicalization.
