{"id":2371895,"date":"2024-11-21T18:59:02","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T23:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/michigan-republican-lands-same-capitol-office-as-his-great-grandfather-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-11-21T19:01:10","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T00:01:10","slug":"michigan-republican-lands-same-capitol-office-as-his-great-grandfather-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/michigan-republican-lands-same-capitol-office-as-his-great-grandfather-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan Republican lands same Capitol office as his great-grandfather &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmichigan-republican-lands-same-capitol-office-as-his-great-grandfather-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2371895&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Tom Barrett, a Republican representative-elect \u200dfrom Michigan, is set to begin his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rep-ocasio-cortez-ranked-one-of-the-least-effective-dem-lawmakers\/\" title=\"Rep. Ocasio-Cortez ranked one of the least effective Dem lawmakers\">congressional term<\/a>\u2063 in the very office once\u2064 occupied \u200bby his\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/washington-post-fact-checkers-expose-truth-about-tim-scotts-black-privilege-in-triumph-of-accountability-journalism\/\" title=\"Washington Post Fact Checkers Expose Truth About Tim Scott\u2019s Black Privilege in Triumph of Accountability Journalism\">great-grandfather<\/a>, Louis Rabaut, who served in Congress 70 years ago. Barrett secured room 1232 in the \u2062Longworth House \u200cOffice Building, thanks to support\u200d from both Republican and Democratic colleagues during the office lottery. He expressed his pride in\u2063 continuing his family&#8217;s legacy,\u200c highlighting that Rabaut is remembered for sponsoring significant legislation to add \u200b&#8221;under God&#8221; to the Pledge of Allegiance in 1954. Barrett, \u200dwho recently\u200d won the congressional \u2062seat in a competitive election, shared a \u200bheartfelt \u2062letter \u2062with his \u2063colleagues detailing his \u200dfamily connection to Rabaut, emphasizing\u2063 the importance of the office and expressing hope \u200dfor meaningful contributions in his new role.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Tom Barrett wins Capitol lottery by landing in great-grandfather&rsquo;s office<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1776893\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Rep.-elect Tom Barrett (R-MI) will start his freshman term in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/congress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Congress\">Congress<\/a> in the same office his great-grandfather occupied 70 years earlier when he passed consequential legislation to change the Pledge of Allegiance.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/michigan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Michigan\">Michigan<\/a> Republican won his coveted pick of room 1232 in the Longworth House Office Building on Capitol Hill thanks to the cooperation of his Republican and Democratic colleagues who respected Barrett&rsquo;s wishes during the office lottery selection on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3226193\/which-biden-executive-orders-first-to-go-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong>HERE&rsquo;S WHICH BIDEN EXECUTIVE ORDERS WILL BE THE FIRST TO GO UNDER TRUMP<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s something I&rsquo;m proud of and something my family is proud of, and something that we&rsquo;re very appreciative of,&rdquo; Barrett told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> Thursday after visiting his new office with a deep family legacy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Rep.-elect Tom Barrett (R-MI) stands outside Longworth House Office Building room 1232. It&rsquo;s the office his great-grandfather, Rep. Louis Rabaut (D-MI), occupied in 1954. (Graeme Jennings\/Washington Examiner)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Barrett flipped the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">blue 7th congressional district held<\/a> by Democratic Rep. Elissa Slotkin, who was elected as Michigan&rsquo;s next U.S. senator, in a victory that helped House Republicans retain a slim majority.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Despite the hard-fought win, Barrett found his new bipartisan class of lawmakers backed him when he started lobbying for the office. In a letter he hand-delivered to his colleagues, Barrett shared the story of his great-grandfather, Rep. Louis Rabaut (D-MI), who was first elected to Congress 90 years ago in 1934.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;He died in office in 1961, long before I was born, so I never had the opportunity to meet him or ask him about his time in Congress, but his legacy is something my whole <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/family\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">family<\/a> is very proud of,&rdquo; Barrett, 43, wrote his colleagues. &ldquo;In fact, my youngest son, Louis, is named after my great-grandfather.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/3220444\/voters-send-history-making-candidates-congress\/\"><strong>VOTERS SEND HISTORY-MAKING CANDIDATES TO CONGRESS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rabaut occupied several offices in his career, but the one that meant the most to Barrett was Longworth 1232. That&rsquo;s where Rabaut sponsored legislation that President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/Dwight-Eisenhower\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Dwight D. Eisenhower<\/a> signed into law in 1954 to add the words &ldquo;under God&rdquo; to the Pledge of Allegiance.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;That was really his most substantive bill that he&rsquo;s best remembered for so I figured that would be the ideal office to move into,&rdquo; Barrett said, reflecting on what meaningful work he may be able to do from the same spot.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The experience &ldquo;really makes me reflective about certainly those that came before me, but also about the generations that are going to come behind me,&rdquo; Barrett said. &ldquo;What are we going to do so that 90 years from now, what are the future generations saying about those of us that served at this time.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The office is currently occupied by Rep. Zach Nunn (R-IA), who is moving out. Every two years, members have an opportunity to request to upgrade to a new space from a retiring or voted-out colleague. Then, newly elected members participate in a lottery to choose from the remaining rooms where they&rsquo;ll work with their staff.<\/p>\n<p>More than 50 people were part of the lottery and Barrett drew number 14. His lobbying efforts paid off because the 13 incoming lawmakers ahead of him didn&rsquo;t claim the office he was eying.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Everybody was pretty accommodating,&rdquo; he said in thanking his colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>The office selection caps a two-week freshman orientation and Barrett will head home to his Lansing-area district. When he returns to Washington, he&rsquo;ll settle in with artifacts of his great-grandfather&rsquo;s legacy to adorn his space. Chief among them will be a family heirloom: a framed copy of the Pledge of Allegiance signed by Rabaut.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1776893\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1776893\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Barrett secures great-grandfather&#8217;s former office in Congress<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3300,"featured_media":2371896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/112124_TOM_BARRETT-8-1024x683.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[34005,13357,4601,3911,32076],"class_list":["post-2371895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-capitol-office","tag-heritage","tag-michigan","tag-republican","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/112124_TOM_BARRETT-8-1024x683.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2371895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3300"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2371895"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2371895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2371899,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2371895\/revisions\/2371899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2371896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2371895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2371895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2371895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}