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The Commuter Congress

January 3, 2011 By Lisa Miller

Families don’t move to Washington anymore, and lawmakers live on the road. Is this any way to govern? In its midcentury heyday, 50 or so members of the Senate Wives’ Club, met at 10 o’clock each Tuesday morning, Democrats and Republicans alike, sitting together in Red Cross uniforms, rolling bandages and exchanging the intimate details […]

Filed Under: Newsweek Tagged With: Congress, families, Lisa Miller, Senators, Washington

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Lisa Miller is a staff writer at New York magazine. She is the former religion columnist for the Washington Post, former senior editor of Newsweek magazine, and author of "Heaven: Our Enduring Fascination with the Afterlife."

In 2014, Lisa Miller was nominated for the National Magazine Award and featured in Best Magazine Writing of 2014.

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