C Street House: Inside A Midnight Intervention For John Ensign In Washington's Frat For Jesus

Inside Lawmakers' 'Frat House For Jesus' And Ensign's Intervention

One midwinter night in 2008, Senator John Ensign, of Nevada, the chairman of the Senate Republican Policy Committee, was roused from bed when six men entered his room and ordered him to get up. Ensign knew the men intimately; a few hours earlier, he had eaten dinner with them, as he had nearly every Tuesday evening since he'd come to Washington. Now they were rebuking him for his recklessness. They told him he was endangering his career, ruining lives, and offending God.

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