Photos of the day: Resting on history

By Caroline Brehman

Posted January 13, 2021 at 4:48pm

Members of the National Guard rest in the Rotunda Wednesday morning before the House vote to impeach President Donald Trump.

Troops have been deployed to defend the building after a pro-Trump insurrectionist mob breached the security of the Capitol last Wednesday.

The House voted 232-197 Wednesday afternoon for a single article of impeachment charging Trump with “incitement of insurrection” for encouraging his supporters who attacked the Capitol.

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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, center, attends a congressional ceremony for the late Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., in the Capitol Rotunda on Tuesday.

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A work crew vacuums the peak of Alexander Calder’s “Mountains and Clouds” installation in the atrium of the Hart Senate Office Building in 2020. The mobile portion of the sculpture, which has been gone for years, is expected to be reinstalled in August.

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Minority Leader Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., talks with reporters in the Capitol in June. Senate Democrats released the results of their annual diversity survey this week.

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