She’s been out of Congress now for six years, but old habits are hard to break: On a Thursday morning in early September, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen’s roller-bag was packed in her K Street office, ready to go.

Just as she’d done for nearly 30 years in Congress, she was ready for the weekly flight back to Miami, where she’d spend the weekend with her husband, Dexter, and hopefully a grandkid or two.

“Some things never change,” she said with a laugh.

But some things have. While Ros-Lehtinen, 73, a Republican who served her South Florida district from 1989 through 2019, became accustomed to that weekly commute over a period of decades, now, she does it as a lobbyist at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLC.

When she’s in Washington, she lives with her son, Rodrigo Heng-Lehtinen, an LGBTQ rights adv

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