While the Republican-on-Republican donnybrook to pick a House speaker continues with no end in sight, no spectators have had a better view of the chaos than the six delegates from territories and the District of Columbia.
So, what’s it been like to be so close, yet so far, from an internecine mess?
“It is very frustrating,” said Del. Stacey Plaskett, a Democrat representing the U.S. Virgin Islands. “It’s kind of unnerving for your fate to be determined by other members. And you’re not engaged in the process.”