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Both Your Houses Summary & Study Guide Description
Both Your Houses Summary & Study Guide includes comprehensive information and analysis to help you understand the book. This study guide contains the following sections:
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Both Your Houses Plot Summary
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Act 1
Both Your Houses takes place in the House Office Building in Washington, D.C. The first scene is set in the office of the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee. Marjorie Gray, the daughter of the chairman and also his secretary, is talking on the phone to Alan McClean, a young congressman from Nevada. She is joined by an older secretary known as Bus. Bus announces that she has been fired by her boss, Eddie Wister, who has hired a pretty, inexperienced secretary provided for him by a steel company.
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scene, various persons pass through the office discussing the upcoming vote on
H. R. 2007, an appropriations bill that designates millions of dollars for a
new dam in Nevada. Many congressmen have been trying to get their special
interests attached to the project, either to support their own investments or
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