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Overheard: Build These Poor Congressmen Some Bunks

“Perhaps somewhere along the lines somebody should have built a dormitory for congresspersons, but they did not.”  

— Rep. Alcee Hastings, D-Fla., making a Tuesday night pitch to the House Rules Committee that Congress needs a pay raise to afford Washington housing.

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