They haven't joined the " The Rent Is Too Damn High Party," but at least 33 members of Congress are having a nightly pajama party, deciding they'd rather sleep in their offices than pay rent for an apartment in Washington, D.C.
Like everything in Washington, this has turned into a political brouhaha. Rep. Hansen Clarke, D-Mich., even appeared on the "Today" show in his pajamas.
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A few Congress members have slept in their offices for years, but the number could be as high as 50since a number of Tea Party Republicanswere elected in November.
Freshman Rep. Todd Rokita, R-Ind., said he decided to sleep in his office after seeing a 600-square-foot studio for $2,000 a month. "I'm not doing this as a political stunt," he told The Wall Street Journal. "I'm doing this because I'm a cheap b------."
Rent in Washington is expensive, but we've known plenty of journalists who have managed to rent apartments on significantly lower salaries than the $174,000 a year that Congress members make. Use "Capitol Hill" as your search term on the Washington Craigslist, and you'll find a variety of places listed starting at about $1,200 a month.
The Congress members could also do what their young staffers in Washington do: get a roommate. If a bunch of them went in together, maybe they could even rent a McMansion.
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Some Congress members say they're making a political statement by sleeping in their offices, even though it doesn't save taxpayers any money, because members of Congress have to pay for their own housing.
"I don't want to be comfortable in Washington because I need to get back to metro Detroit," Clarke told the WSJ shortly after his election. "Businesses are struggling right now. Families are struggling. I'm only in Washington to work."
The organization Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics has filed an official complaintwith the Office of Congressional Ethics, arguing that the sleepover members of Congress are getting a tax break by getting free housing, plus they're making personal use of public resources. Since the offices don't have showers, the resident Congress members shower in the House gym.
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The Wall Street Journal explains how the practice has waxed and wanedin recent decades, with some House leaders opposing and some supporting the practice.
"House office buildings are not dorms or frat houses," said Melanie Sloan of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics. "If members didn't want to find housing in Washington, they shouldn't have run for Congress in the first place."
And, she added: "Who wants to run into a member of Congress in need of a shower wandering the halls in sweats or a robe?"

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MADE IN USA is not the same thing with MADE IN NIGERIA








The difference is 7up

Someone please tell these useless clowns in the Nigerian senate.........
$2000 isn't even up to the furniture allowance given to these depraved looters.
And yet they have the guts to reject official quarters worth 3 wooping billion!




@ op.... The topic should be shame on Nigerian public office holders with particular emphasis on the presidency and the legislooters who are living under the farce that they are lawmakers and honorables......
St.upid leaders!!!!!

In Nigeria - Animals govern the people - Hence the Animal behaviour -- What is abnormal in sane climates is classified as a norm in Nigeria.


for example
Obama has 2 main jets - GDP 13 trillion Dollars
GEj - 7 Jets - GDP 300 Billion Dollars ( Is that not abnormal)

blacksta: In Nigeria - Animals govern the people - Hence the Animal behaviour -- What is abnormal in sane climates is classified as a norm in Nigeria.


for example
Obama has 2 main jets - GDP 13 trillion Dollars
GEj - 7 Jets - GDP 300 Billion Dollars ( Is that not abnormal)

Animals? That's mean fa

Y our oga at the top still kontinue to eat 1 000 000 000 food .
Olorun oba gba wa lowo awon asebi

So what does this have to do with Nigeria? Must Nigerian lawmakers copy what they do? If only 33 members of the US lawmakers chose to do this(which for sure don't mean anything to our lawmakers in Nigeria) and our Nigerian counterpart doesn't is it now a sin? You should be ashamed of yourself bro.

gameboy727: So what does this have to do with Nigeria? Must Nigerian lawmakers copy what they do? If only 33 members of the US lawmakers chose to do this(which for sure don't mean anything to our lawmakers in Nigeria) and our Nigerian counterpart doesn't is it now a sin? You should be ashamed of yourself bro.

your name is a graphic representation of how you think, the united states is the richest country in the world with the world largest middle class but lok how frugal they are with money. They don't even give official houses to their lawmakers. Meanwhile nigeria with one of the highest poverty rate in the world, one of the few countries in the world whoes citizens are'nt assured access to power, education, healthcare,water,etc..yet our lawmakers live like kings. The 2,000 dollars a u.s lawmaker could not afford as rent is quaterly furniture allowance for a nigerian lawmaker. If you think nothing os wrong with this, then you and your fellow likeminded nigerians deserve the life you are living in this country.