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Suzanimal
01-10-2015, 09:33 AM
:eek:

It's one thing to skinny dip in private...


Kay Hagan just wanted to swim. It was late 2008, and the Democrat was newly arrived on Capitol Hill as North Carolina’s junior senator-elect. But Hagan was told that the Senate pool was males-only. Why? Because some of the male senators liked to swim naked.

It took an intervention by Senator Chuck Schumer, head of the Rules Committee, to put a stop to the practice, but even then “it was a fight,” remembers pollster Celinda Lake, who heard about the incident when the pool revolt was the talk among Washington women.

The pool wasn’t the only Senate facility apparently stuck in the Dark Ages. The restroom closest to the Senate floor that was set aside for women senators had only two stalls. By 2013, with 20 women in the Senate, restroom traffic jams were commonplace, forcing some of the female senators to traipse to a first-floor restroom far from the chamber. Two additional stalls, an extra sink and more storage space were added in the fall of 2013, after several female senators raised the issue publicly.

The great potty controversy received news coverage in both the Washington Post and the New York Times, where the female senators were reduced to raving perkily about their new facilities. “We’re even going to have a window,” New Hampshire Senator Jeanne Shaheen, a former governor and foreign policy specialist, was quoted as enthusing.

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Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/01/senate-women-secret-history-113908.html#ixzz3OQuDgT9N

tod evans
01-10-2015, 09:41 AM
Skinny dippin' eh....

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There ain't enough chlorine in all of DC!

Suzanimal
01-10-2015, 09:51 AM
Skinny dippin' eh....

There ain't enough chlorine in all of DC!

No doubt. I wonder who the skinny dippers or chunky dunkers were.

Suzanimal
01-10-2015, 10:02 AM
???:eek:

http://i.imgur.com/QirqVKJm.png

HOLLYWOOD
01-10-2015, 11:26 AM
NE1 have pics of the Senate's pool room? Democrats passed a bill in the early 1990s to charge an annual fee for their clubs, so the peon and mundane taxpayers of America, wouldn't demand they pay for all their country club privileges. So, members of Congress pay an annual fee of $400 a year or $33/month. How would you like that price for membership price?




Head Start programs have been shuttered (http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/10/01/2709031/shutdown-head-start/), small businesses can’t get loans (http://www.cpapracticeadvisor.com/news/11186869/government-shutdown-big-for-few-but-minimal-for-most) and hundreds of thousands of federal government employees are furloughed. But the exclusive gyms available only to members of Congress have remained open throughout the shutdown.


A House aide confirmed to ThinkProgress that the House member’s gym is open. The House gym features a swimming pool, basketball courts, paddleball courts, a sauna, a steam room and flat screen TVs (http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2011/06/a_capitol_workout.html). While towel service is unavailable, taxpayers remain on the hook for cleaning and maintenance, which has been performed daily throughout the shutdown. There are also costs associated with the power required to heat the pools (http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/cost-congressional-gyms-secret/story?id=13859326) and keep the lights on.


According to the aide, the decision to keep the gym open — even while other critical government services were shelved — while made by the Architect of the Capitol, but was done with the direct involvement Speaker Boehner’s office. Meanwhile, the staff gym available to Congressional staff has been closed (http://cha.house.gov/sites/republicans.cha.house.gov/files/documents/committee_docs/Expected%20Levels%20of%20Service%20During%20a%20La pse%20in%20Appropriations_7.pdf).

Anti Federalist
01-10-2015, 01:40 PM
Why do you people rail against the perqs and benefits that are bestowed upon our Dear Leaders?

Don't you realize how hard they work every day for you?

Anti Federalist
01-10-2015, 01:42 PM
Why do you people rail against the perqs and benefits that are bestowed upon our Dear Leaders?

Don't you realize how hard they work every day for you?