The Thing With Feathers

By Emily Heil and Elizabeth Brotherton
Roll Call Staff

May 20, 2008

HOH could practically hear the tune “Free Bird” playing in the Senate Press Gallery on Monday morning, after a sparrow that had taken up residence among the scribes finally flew the coop. The bird had lived alongside the Congressional press corps for more than a week, and it had evaded every creative attempt at capture by staff from the gallery and the Capitol superintendent’s office.

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