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SECRETS REVEALED!
New House Members Are Revealing Secrets About Congress!
The youngest House members are the most digitally connected, and they’re showing off a side of Congress we don’t typically get to see.
A new Congress means new House members, and this 118th Congress has added several Millennial and Gen Z Representatives.
I asked them what they’ve discovered about Congress that they had not been expecting, and they all got very candid, though they requested anonymity to reveal these secrets about their legislative colleagues:
“The House floor has this weird smell for which the only way to succinctly describe it is that the whole chamber just smells old.”
“Paul Gosar spends most of his free time drawing comics of himself as some kind of Mortal Kombat character who beheads all the other members of the House with various weapons. And sometimes he draws out these creepy, gross pictures of dead cats, like roadkill and stuff. He colors in his pictures with crayons so furiously that he sweats.”
“Matt Gaetz has approached all of us freshman House members and said, ‘Hey, you’re young, do you know any clever ways to get around the government firewalls on our network so we can watch…
