...to hold monthly meetings in 2013 to build trust across the aisle.These forward-looking Americans include: Sens. Mark Begich, D-Alaska, and Dean Heller, R-Nev., and Reps. John Barrow, D-Ga., Sanford Bishop, D-Ga., David Cicilline...

...30 first-term senators. In many cases, the voters didn't trade up: Scott Brown for Kennedy in Massachusetts, Mark Begich for Alaska's Ted Stevens, West Virginia's Joe Manchin for Robert Byrd. One cycle earlier, the venerable South...

...Brown of Ohio, Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley of Oregon, Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, Benjamin Cardin of Maryland, Mark Begich of Alaska, Tom Harkin of Iowa, Herb Kohl of Wisconsin and Tom Udall of New Mexico."Many of these laws effectively...

...and learned in his four years a wealth of practical wisdom about negotiating compromises. That description also fits Mark Begich, the mayor of Anchorage, who is the likely Democratic nominee for Stevens' seat. Like most mayors of both parties...