WASHINGTON — Being a real estate agent in the mid-1990s meant you probably had a cellphone, even if none of your friends did.
“I had mine hardwired into my car,” says Rep. Bill Huizenga, a Michigan Republican.
That came in handy when he took a new job as a congressional staffer, though it did raise some eyebrows. “Why was my cellphone bill so big?” Huizenga recalls his fellow staffers asking.
