New D.C. order: Rookies rule CPAC

By MARIN COGAN, Politico

This time last year, Kristi Noem was home on her South Dakota ranch mulling a run for Congress. Raul Labrador was a little-known state legislator waging a long-shot bid for the House that even his own party wasn’t enthused about.

Now, though, the two Republican House freshmen are basking in the national conservative limelight. They are two of the brightest stars at the 2011 Conservative Political Action Conference, typically a playground for presidential hopefuls and the foot soldiers who love them.

And Noem and Labrador aren’t the only GOP House rookies being celebrated at the annual conservative gathering. The roster of CPAC speakers and panelists included eight members of the mammoth 87-member House freshmen class and four newly-elected senators. Only one freshman—five-year Senator and former Congressman Jim DeMint—from either chamber spoke at last year’s event.

The rise of the rookies represents a reversal of a traditional D.C. order that places first-term legislators at the bottom of the D.C. food chain, a dramatic expression of the place the newcomers occupy in the conservative constellation.

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