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Roscoe Bartlett: The Congressman Who Went Off The Grid

Former Tea Party Rep Goes Off The Grid, Now Lives In Remote Cabin
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UNITED STATES - MAY 28: Rep. Roscoe Bartlett, R-Md., speaks at the Memorial Day service at the Barton, Md., American Legion post on Monday, May 28, 2012. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

When Roscoe Bartlett was in Congress, he latched onto a particularly apocalyptic issue, one almost no one else ever seemed to talk about: America’s dangerously vulnerable power grid. In speech after late-night speech on the House floor, Bartlett hectored the nearly empty chamber: If the United States doesn’t do something to protect the grid, and soon, a terrorist or an act of nature will put an end to life as we know it.

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