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Senate Undergoes Emergency Cleaning After Woman Drags In Bedbugs
The Mirror ^ | 7-24-16 | Betsy Rothstein

Posted on 07/24/2014 5:15:39 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic

The Architect of the Capitol took emergency measures Wednesday to handle a bed bug problem in a Senate Office Building, including closing off a restroom for a couple of days with yellow police tape.

So watch out Senate aides and tourists approaching the sixth floor of the Dirksen Senate Office Building. Bedbugs are not easy to shake.

The trouble began prior to a Senate Indian Affairs Committee hearing held Wednesday in which some attendees—lobbyists, presumably—employed people to wait in line for them. This is a common practice and sources tell us it falls under the jurisdiction of the Rules Committee chaired by Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.).

A female in line–one of the placeholders–had bedbugs. Sources tell The Mirror she was physically removed from the scene after one of her fellow line sitters noticed bugs crawling all over her. Apparently the bugs were also found in a women’s restroom.

“We’ve been on high alert all day for the damned creatures,” said a Senate aide on condition of anonymity. “People are pretty much on lockdown, scared to leave their offices.”

Question: Will the Senate take steps to ensure that hired sitters are not infested with invasive bugs? Will Silkwood showers be a way of the future?

To be sure, the expression “Don’t let the bedbugs bite” just took on a whole new meaning for anyone in or near Dirksen.

The Mirror put in a call to the Architect of the Capitol’s office and wrote Schumer’s press secretary, as well as aides at the Rules Committee. Unfortunately, since it’s evening, everyone in the AOC office has gone home. They told me to call back in the morning.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Health/Medicine; Pets/Animals; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: bedbugs; infestation; linesitter; schumer
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1 posted on 07/24/2014 5:15:40 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Oh my!


2 posted on 07/24/2014 5:16:07 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: afraidfortherepublic
What about the rest of the country?

3 posted on 07/24/2014 5:17:20 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

“We’ve been on high alert all day for the damned creatures,” said a Senate aide on condition of anonymity. “People are pretty much on lockdown, scared to leave their offices.”

These things are disgusting. I am talking about the aides and the Senators.


4 posted on 07/24/2014 5:18:39 AM PDT by dforest
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Won’t be the first time we had parasites in the Senate.


5 posted on 07/24/2014 5:19:27 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia (Democrats: The perfect party for the helpless and stupid, and those who would rule over them.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

The best system for bedbug eradication is to seal off the building, remove all the food and perishables, and HEAT the building to an unacceptably high temperature (using special heaters designed for that purpose), and keeping the temperature at that horrible heat for a specified amount of time.

Then, a thorough vacuuming and cleaning.

I wonder if we can perform this operation without having to evacuate certain congresscritters?


6 posted on 07/24/2014 5:21:22 AM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Wait until it’s Ebola...then they’ll be sorry.


7 posted on 07/24/2014 5:24:08 AM PDT by Politicalkiddo (You cannot protect a child from child abuse by aborting it. Abortion *is* child abuse.)
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To: left that other site

Demons can withstand Hellish temperatures. Wouldn’t hurt them at all.


8 posted on 07/24/2014 5:25:24 AM PDT by Politicalkiddo (You cannot protect a child from child abuse by aborting it. Abortion *is* child abuse.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

What is the percentage of these illegal aliens that are infested by bed bugs?


9 posted on 07/24/2014 5:27:21 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Congress has Cooties!


10 posted on 07/24/2014 5:27:36 AM PDT by BwanaNdege ( "For those who have fought for it, Life bears a savor the protected will never know")
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To: afraidfortherepublic

The antiAmerican EXEMPT are infected
... out of professional courtesy by the bedbugs.


11 posted on 07/24/2014 5:28:44 AM PDT by Diogenesis (The EXEMPT Congress is complicit in the absence of impeachment)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Until we opened our borders up bed-bugs and head lice were distant memories. Now at the beginning of the school year we have to check our kids and many have to A-200 them.

But wait, there’s more! The new wave of (illegal) immigrants are vectoring in a whole bunch of new/old diseases.


12 posted on 07/24/2014 5:29:20 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: afraidfortherepublic

I can stop scratching after reading this. I know I’m not the only one.


13 posted on 07/24/2014 5:30:17 AM PDT by jonsie
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To: afraidfortherepublic
Blood suckers on the blood suckers..!!

Well.... I guess you could say their chickens have come home to roost.. :)

14 posted on 07/24/2014 5:30:34 AM PDT by unread (Rescind the 17th. Amendment...bring the power BACK to the states...!)
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15 posted on 07/24/2014 5:33:49 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alteration: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

“...Senate Undergoes Emergency Cleaning ...”

Way I see it, November 2014 is the Emergency Cleaning...


16 posted on 07/24/2014 5:36:25 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

I’m sure this is not funny for the people personally affected.

For me, though ...


17 posted on 07/24/2014 5:39:40 AM PDT by Tax-chick (No power in the 'verse can stop me.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Maybe today would be a good day to introduce a bill to reverse the ban on DDT. We may have their attention.


18 posted on 07/24/2014 5:44:29 AM PDT by BoringGuy
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To: afraidfortherepublic
The trouble began prior to a Senate Indian Affairs Committee

Oh, my, not a PC name for a committee! (sarcasm)

19 posted on 07/24/2014 5:44:59 AM PDT by NRA1995 (I'd rather be a living "gun culture" member than a dead anti-gun candy-ass.)
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To: NRA1995
"Secretary of Indian Affairs. Imagine how much money a fella could steal in a job like that!"

Peter Lawford in the original Ocean's 11


20 posted on 07/24/2014 5:49:40 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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