- [Congressional] office buildings are not dorms or frat houses. If members didn’t want to find housing in Washington, they shouldn’t have run for Congress in the first place.
- CREW‘s Melanie Sloan • On the tendency of legislators to sleep in their offices rather than rent apartments. Apparently, more than thirty members of Congress (including the GOP’s budget man, Paul Ryan) currently do this, and CREW is concerned that they may be receiving an inadvertent tax break in doing so. One of the writers here at ShortFormBlog once spent a summer living on other people’s couches, so we don’t exactly feel we’re in a place to criticize. What’s wrong with being frugal? source