The cafeterias serving the House of Representatives are run under contract by Restaurant Associates (since the 1980s) and turn a profit while serving good food that draws legions of staffers each day from all over Capitol Hill. The Senate dining room is a public eatery, where even the wait staff averages $37,000/year, the food is terrible, and taxpayers have had to fork out subsidies of $18 million since 2003 just so Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) could continue to eat sushi that costs you and me more than an Amtrak ticket. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), of all the unexpected advocates of free enterprise, led the finally successful attempt to have the Senate dining room privatized. From the Washington Post : In a letter to colleagues, Feinstein said that the Government Accountability Office found that "financially breaking even has not been the objective of the current management due to an expectation that the restaurants will operate at a deficit annually." But Sen. Robert ...