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Capitol Hill break-ins: inside job?

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    Police investigate series of burglaries

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They targeted the Rayburn and longworth house office building just steps from the US capitol.

California Republican Jerry lewis' office was hit the night of April 21.

Well it's just outrageous -- Arlene Lewis serves as her husband's chief of staff -- the bandits took White House Easter -- she collected since Jimmy Carter's presidency.

And I had even thought about donating them to homeland -- hospital topped them all but one of their events.

Elin should have done that last year because now I don't happen.

It didn't take this unsigned baseball belonging to -- staffers spent their free -- but they snatched three others may have probably over 25 signatures on each one of us who just.

-- -- Baseball players -- came here every year for a special hot dog wants that we -- you and then it went in my closet and told us they also swiped book -- carved out of the old capitol steps and bottles of wine from lewis' office it's too -- these things or personal.

-- nominee in the comments to us and amounts -- about sum it up and steal it.

Among the higher ticket items taken were a computer monitor and lots of cash from desks.

The burglars visiting several congressional offices in mid to late April.

Always in the middle of the night when the offices were locked.

The break -- first reported in Thursday's edition of the National Journal.

Well shots.

How -- you break in the building.

That's -- -- by the police -- for -- today.

That's a question capitol police are now trying to answer but keys were obviously use.

New York Republican Peter King is chairman of the homeland security committee.

That's -- inside job obviously employees somewhere in the capital system I don't want to be pointing fingers off.

And tonight in the offices are -- that's been inside -- we're told another office broken into was the house appropriations subcommittee.

On Homeland Security.

That's even more troubling because obviously.

We can information as strong where our strengths and weaknesses rather we don't anywhere to find out about may not be top secret qwest's fiber -- sensitive enough.

-- you don't want it drowned out by the enemy -- -- about it.