Chicken, Contaminated Dry Wall, and Tennis?

While the Tea Party Caucus, Congressional Black Caucus, and Blue Dog Coalition may have received a large share of the headlines in recent years, they represent but a small fraction of the officially recognized Congressional Member Organizations (CMOs) on Capitol Hill. It may surprise those outside the Beltway that there are currently 178 such approved CMOs as of May 2013. Some of the caucuses are ideological- or interest-driven but many are district-driven. Lesser known CMOs include Caucuses on Bourbon (chaired by Representatives Brett Guthrie and John Yarmuth), Cement (Charles Dent and Jim Matheson), Chicken (Rick Crawford and Sanford Bishop), Contaminated Drywall (Ted Deutch and Scott Rigell), Modeling and Simulation (Randy Forbes), and Tennis (Shelley Moore Capito).