If she has anything to say about it, there is no alternate reality where Faye Cobb would be doing anything other than what she’s doing right now as a behind-the-scenes funding negotiator for House Democrats.

“It was always this. When I see the Capitol, I am still in awe,” said Cobb, the party’s clerk for the House Appropriations subcommittee that crafts the annual legislative branch funding bill, in an interview.

Cobb, a graduate of the University of Maryland, arrived in Congress in 2005 to serve as the financial counseling director for the Chief Administrative Office. There, she transitioned into the budget director role, then served as a professional........

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