https://www.independentrecorder.com/there-is-actually-an-essential-club-at-washington-whose-members-run-america-123620.html

The Chowder and Marching Club.

Meetings take place in a conference room in the suite of House Majority Leader

Kevin McCarthy of California. Sitting House members have priority to address the meeting, one of the few places in Washington where senators defer to the lower chamber.

The club is a refuge for old-guard Republicans in President Donald Trump’s Washington, one old-time member said, a meeting place for politicians with a now-unfashionable love of politics and governing.

“These are the people who are institutionalists, not disrupters,” the member said. “If the president walked in and looked at this group he’d say, ‘This is the Swamp.’ They’d look at him and say, ‘This is amateur night at the Bijou.’”