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I never thought I would run for Congress. If you look back at a certain reality TV show, you know that.

At the end of the day, there's not an office complex anywhere on these grounds that I wouldn't be honored to have as a sitting member of Congress.

I put myself and all the members of Congress in the same boat of things that could have been done better.

I never believed that my service in the U.S. Congress should become a permanent career.

Though I'm a congresswoman by title, a politician I've never been.

I was a very, very good congressman.

I never dread going back to Congress.

I've been in Congress 14 years. I've been on the Appropriations Committee in which we are in charge of trying to move legislation.

But I made one mistake which I would never repeat as a member of Congress when I was in Washington, and that was when I was elected I didn't go on trips because I was so afraid of having someone accuse me of taking junkets.