All Clear on Hart 7 1/2

By Warren Rojas

Posted April 17, 2013 at 2:11pm

Senate staffers in the Hart Office Building spent part of their morning stuck in a holding pattern after reports of suspicious packages shut down the first and third floors.

Meanwhile, it was business as unusual on one of the lesser known levels:

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