Marylanders named to best & worst in Congress list

Laura Vozzella

Washingtonian magazine’s annual “Best & Worst of Congress” survey is out, and the Maryland delegation gets plenty of ink. In good ways and bad.

Based on a survey of top Capitol Hill aides, Washingtonian ranked Barbara Mikulski the Senate’s top “fashion victim.” It also deemed her the nation’s “meanest” senator.

Ben Cardin, meanwhile, came in second “nicest.”

On the House side, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer was judged greatest “workhorse,” “most eloquent,” and “member I’d like to see as president in 2012.”