Heard on the Hill: Overheard on the Hill

By Elizabeth Brotherton and Alison McSherry

Posted December 13, 2010 at 6:37pm

“I can’t believe we have this meeting. I dressed to just come in and watch Hulu.”

— a House staffer complaining to a colleague in the Rayburn House Office Building hallway, as overheard by a tipster. “Not like we have anything to do up here,” the tipster jokes.

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