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anon401 ago

'Stange bedfellows'

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/17/us/after-decades-lawmakers-are-roommates-no-more.html

Lawmakers Are Roommates No More DEC. 16, 2014

It was the end of the real “Alpha House,” the crumbling gray-blue rowhouse in the shadow of the Capitol where a group of powerful Democratic lawmakers — including Mr. Miller, Mr. Schumer, Senator Richard J. Durbin of Illinois and a rotating cast of supporting players — have lived for more than three decades.

Mr. Miller, the owner of the two-story, two-bedroom house, is retiring after 40 years in Congress and is selling the home that inspired the Amazon web series “Alpha House,” as well as countless punch lines about the crash pad’s fraternity-meets-policy seminar vibe.

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The home — once nicknamed “Washington’s Algonquin table” — has provided refuge to a rumpled crew of Democratic lawmakers over the years, including former representatives like William D. Delahunt of Massachusetts, Samuel Gejdenson of Connecticut, Leon E. Panetta of California and Marty Russo of Illinois (who moved in during a snowstorm and stayed for a decade, until he was defeated in Congress).

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