Former Republican presidential candidate and Sen.-elect Mitt Romney has been temporarily placed in a basement office on Capitol Hill as he makes his transition into office.
When the former Massachusetts governor visited Washington, D.C., Tuesday for the first time since the midterm elections, Romney found his assigned temporary workspace was in the basement of the Capitol building, the Salt Lake Tribune reported.
The soon-to-be Utah senator will be working from this allocated basement space until offices are officially doled out when the new class of senators are sworn in.
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The senator-elect will succeed Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, in January. Romney won the midterm elections in Utah with 63.2 percent of the vote.
While walking the hallways of the Capitol, Romney told MSNBC that “this is an orientation day and I’m getting orientated,” adding that he had met with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., earlier in the day.
