Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 278 |
| AUTHOR: | Author unknown |
| QUOTATION: | One of the standing jokes of Congress is that the new Congressman always spends the first week wondering how he got there and the rest of the time wondering how the other members got there. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Author unknown.—Saturday Evening Post, November 4, 1899, p. 356. |
| SUBJECTS: | Congress |