Who still uses a typewriter? Sensenbrenner does

Forget iPads and PCs, when it comes to writing letters, Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner likes to keep his communication mode pretty retro. 

The Wisconsin Republican prefers typing messages on a gray, vintage-looking typewriter. Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) revealed his colleague’s typing tendencies in a tweet Thursday:

We hear 70-year-old Sensenbrenner, a member of the House Committee on Space, Science, and Technology committee, does his letter writing on an IBM Selectric II. The machine was first introduced in 1971.

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