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Capitol Lens | Making Christmas music together

(Caroline Brehman/CQ Roll Call)
By Bill Clark
Posted December 16, 2025 at 7:30am

In this archival photo from Dec. 16, 2020, Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine plays the harmonica with then-Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee on the piano in the atrium of the Hart Building. Alexander retired from Congress at the end of that term.

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