backbencher

/bak-ben-cher, -ben-/US // ˈbækˈbɛn tʃər, -ˌbɛn- //UK // (ˈbækˈbɛntʃə) //

后座议员,后座人员,后座,长老会成员

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : any of the members of a legislature, especially of the House of Commons of Great Britain, but not including the leaders of the parties.

In other words, Greene’s position as a freshman backbencher in the House should temper the attention she receives.
He was a loud backbencher with very little of the substantive gravity of his old mentor, Chuck Schumer.
But those same beliefs ensure that she would be a perennial senate backbencher in a state accustomed to influence in Washington.
In truth, Gingrich was a backbencher during the Reagan years, lobbing bombshells at the White House in addition to Democrats.