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GOP Avoids 'The T Word' ||| CAPITOL WRAP Hidden Workplaces Pence’s Hostile Office Takeover Vice President Mike Pence is working closely with Congress. Very closely. In fact, the former congressman is so What’s Their Line? close that he now occupies a small office just off the House floor, down a flight of GOP Avoids stairs from the Speaker’s Lobby. But Pence’s gain is someone else’s loss, ‘The T Word’ and it comes in the form of an eviction Democrats mentioned the president by of a high-ranking Republican, Rep. Greg name (5) far more than Republicans (0) at Walden of Oregon, who enjoyed the ben- the Senate leadership news conferences in efits of H-142 and its 30-second walk to the Capitol on Feb. 14. the House floor since 2014, but moved out in the last few weeks, a spokesman says. Such spaces, commonly known as hideaway offices, are highly coveted by members and doled out based on senior- ity. Still, Walden was diplomatic about the loss. “If you’re going to lose your hideaway, it’s better to lose it to the vice president of the United States than some other shmuck,” he says. The office features a fireplace, a small kitchen, a refrigerator, three windows and a pretty good view of the National Mall. A fresco directly above the front door depicts the 1867 Russian sale of Alaska to the United States. The office had been unmarked, but it now sports a placard identifying its new occupant. It won’t be the first time a vice presi- dent will have an office on the House side: Former Vice President Dick Cheney was the first, and he had a space in H-208 as Vital Signs well as another office in the Dirksen Sen- Gambling, and Winning, on Trump was tied for the best odds ate Office Building. As president of the with Attorney General Jeff Senate, all vice presidents have an office In the real world, the na- deed, he says that revenue Sessions, though you would located in S-212, just off the Senate floor. scent Trump administration is “a hundred times” over have made a nice chunk of How much Pence uses his new digs is has been on something of a Obama and Bush combined. change on since-withdrawn unclear. No one answered several knocks bad run, but in the gambling Oh, so you were wondering Labor nominee Andy Puzder: on the door of H-142 on a recent Tuesday world, he’s been coming up what, exactly, you could waste A $100 bet would have paid when Pence was in the Capitol. Mean- nothing but aces. your money on? Well, this out $1,750. while, over at S-212 an intern was skittish So says Jim Murphy, the month you can place a bet on — Jonathan Miller about talking, but noted that the wall proprietor of Sports Betting the over/under for the num- colors recently changed from “Big Bird Experts, a gambling website. ber of tweets the president Yellow” to a more muted mauve. He explains that the Trump pumps out in a week — the — Jonathan Miller era has been “great fodder for line is 47.5. betting odds” and a “gold- Maybe you think you know mine” for what are known as which country will be the first proposition bets. Trump will visit (Slovenia, “This started during the the first lady’s home country, debates, extended through currently has the best odds; the presidential election and North Korea the worst). continues to the present date,” To the question of who is he explains in an email that the first administration official includes the current betting to leave their job, beleaguered lines for all things Trump. In- press secretary Sean Spicer Courtesy Jeff Mapes Courtesy 38 FEBRUARY 27, 2017 | CQ.
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