Actually, the Government (US) wound up owning the infamous Mustang Ranch (Whorehouse, subject of a movie), and some months later, it went bust.
So the tagline is a joke - congress did run a brothel, and it went broke.
Go figure.
“I will take the young pretty girl on the end..”
“So would I, but this is a union shop - Toothless edna, you are up!”
From the assorted usless trivia department: Marvin Zindler of EYE - Witness - News, (if you'd ever heard him you'd know what that means), in Houston, Texas passed on recently. He was the fellow who got his knickers in a twist when he found out that "Texas has a whorehouse in it!"
I Really wish some of this stuff weren't taking up what could otherwise be useful space in my brain.