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Capitol Lens | Getting the shaft

(Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
By Bill Clark
Posted July 21, 2025 at 4:59pm

Tourists gather in the small Senate rotunda in the Capitol’s old Senate wing on Monday. The small rotunda was designed by Benjamin Henry Latrobe as an ornamental air shaft. 

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