Election 2010: Teabaggin' the Ds & Rs

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This is a welcomed change:

It's the ultimate I'm-not-a-professional-politician statement, reminiscent of the 1994 midterm elections, when a GOP House takeover led to a surge in House sleepovers.

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Eli Meir Kaplan for The Wall Street Journal

Incoming Rep. Joe Heck (R., Nev), who plans to sleep in his office, checks one out in the Longworth building.
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.With voters again shunning Washington and fiscal excess, a number of incoming House members plan to demonstrate their scorn for both by camping out near their new desks. Many more are still undecided but may well join the sleep-sofa caucus.

"Since I'm here on a temporary basis, I don't see any need to have a permanent kind of residence," says Rep.-elect Joe Heck, a Nevada Republican, who was thinking roll-out cot when he looked at office space this month.

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