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| Last Edited | RBH Nov 20, 2008 12:25am |
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| News Date | Thursday, November 20, 2008 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | More than 50 soon-to-be members of Congress arrived on Capitol Hill this week with plans for changing America.
Jason Chaffetz came with a cot wrapped in duct tape and a plan for washing his underwear.
Elected two weeks ago to represent Utah’s 3rd Congressional District, Chaffetz intends to serve how he lives and how he campaigned: frugally.
So rather than renting an apartment in Washington, he’ll join the ranks of members who sleep in their offices at night and shower each morning in the House gym. He will take his suits to the House dry cleaner and will bundle together his “socks and undies” to take home every weekend to be washed.
“My wife is just worried that it is going to stink,” he said. “She said, ‘Jason, get good air circulation.’”
Chaffetz says he’s always lived a pay-go lifestyle — his only debts have been a house and a car — and that he’d like to see Washington start doing the same. |
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