US Representative Buddy Carter, along with approximately 100 other members of the House, has been sleeping in his office for a decade due to the difficulty of frequent travel between Washington DC and their respective districts. The practice, known as the ‘Couch Caucus’, is seen as a way to manage the high cost of maintaining a second residence in Washington DC, where the average monthly rent is between $2,500 and $3,000. Despite criticism over unsanitary conditions and ‘free accommodation’, a bill to prevent members from sleeping in Congress did not pass, and instead, a bill was passed to partially support members’ housing rent and hotel accommodation costs from 2023.
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