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Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, seen here in 2017 talking to a group of students at the Capitol, is among the former members of Congress to be profiled in Roll Call's Life After Congress feature.

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, seen here in 2017 talking to a group of students at the Capitol, is among the former members of Congress to be profiled in Roll Call’s Life After Congress feature. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call file photo)

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Jason Dick and Jessica Wehrman

Posted September 10, 2025 at 1:07pm

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Poetry readings, brewing beer, helping out kids: Jason Dick and Jessica Wehrman talk about Roll Call’s revived Life After Congress feature and what former members do with their time; then, they round it out with a little wisdom from Henry Cabot Lodge.

Show Notes:

  • Life after Congress: Glenn Poshard
  • Where are they now? Happily, often anyplace but here
  • Gallup’s Congress and the Public page
  • Words of the Week: Continuing Body
  • Roll Call’s Political Theater archives
  • Subscribe to Political Theater’s weekly newsletter
  • Watch Political Theater on Roll Call’s YouTube page

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