Heard On The Hill · 117th Congress
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Heard On The Hill · 117th Congress
Photo of the day: Tear down this fence
The fencing was erected after the Jan. 6 riot that breached the building as Congress tabulated the Electoral College results. [jwp-video n=”1″]
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Photos of the week ending July 2, 2021
Mo Brooks talks with Capitol Police officers Wednesday before the House voted to create select committee to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
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‘Yes, I do belong here’: AAPI staffers on a tough year working for Congress
“It was also a year where we had to process the George Floyd protests, Jan. 6 … Those are all incidents that affected our members very deeply,” says Lin, who serves as president of the group of roughly
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More activists should go work for Congress, these staffers say
[‘They wouldn’t care if I was dead’ — staffer fallout from Jan. 6 continues] If successful, the staff association will make Capitol Hill more fertile for progressive policy ideas trying to take
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Scenes from the Capitol’s busy, noisy, close-talking comeback
In their stead were new fences placed not to fend off a foreign-born virus but a domestic threat — mobs of self-proclaimed patriots who attempted on Jan. 6 to subvert the Constitution and ignore the democratic
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‘I would like us to get the smile back’: Sen. Kevin Cramer on the GOP
You have James Carville saying, “Democrats gotta just pound Jan. 6, every day, over and over,” and using all his usual colorful vulgarities to make the point.
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A Rand Paul voice vote, Scooby Snacks and a cicada attack — Congressional Hits and Misses
While the Senate couldn’t pass a Jan. 6 commission bill, Majority Leader Charles E.
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Photos of the week ending May 28, 2021
This week, the National Guard ended its mission at the Capitol, the anniversary of George Floyd’s death was observed and the Senate attempted to move forward on a Jan. 6 commission before heading home
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‘I’m a good compartmentalizer’: Susan Wild talks moving on from Capitol riot
On trying to forget Jan. 6 “I think I’ve actually compartmentalized it to the point of it not being healthy,” she says.
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To be productive, no one in Congress can be involved — Congressional Hits and Misses
Steve Cohen whipped out a “you can’t handle the truth” meme in response to Republican opposition to the House’s bipartisan Jan. 6 commission bill that faces an uncertain future in the Senate.
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New House chaplain keeps praying through the turmoil
Since being sworn in on Jan. 3, Kibben has prayed after the death of a Capitol Police officer, during a bitter partisan debate on pandemic aid and as she stood in the chamber on Jan. 6 while a pro-Trump
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Fashion statements fizzle out at Biden’s joint address
Mariannette Miller-Meeks rocked a mask with a big number 6 on it — a reference to her wafer-thin, six vote margin of victory last year, which also inspired the name of her leadership political action committee
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More than a century later, WWI gets its memorial in Washington
At Friday’s grand opening, a flag that was flown over the Capitol on April 6, 2017 — the centennial of the United States’ entry into the war — and then flown over American battlefield cemeteries
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This wood sat in storage for 100 years. Now it’s being used to fix Capitol riot damage
Only a few people on Earth know where to find a stash of century-old rare mahogany that can be used to repair priceless furnishings damaged on Jan. 6 by a pro-Trump mob that stormed the Capitol.
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&pizza closes early in Rayburn after staffers eat all the pizza
Monday, but would resume its normal hours Tuesday, vowing to increase supply “so we can make pizzas until 6 p.m., Monday through Friday, moving forward.”
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More than a game: Football matters more this year to Congress, Capitol Police
That’ll be especially true at this year’s charity game, following the assault on the Capitol on Jan. 6, which injured at least 134 police officers and killed one, Brian Sicknick, and another attack
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Black women are mostly missing from Capitol art. This lawmaker has a suggestion
Some National Guardsmen were seen taking photos with the Parks statue when they were called to protect the Capitol in the aftermath of its storming by a pro-Trump mob on Jan. 6.
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Photos of the week ending March 19, 2021
H&M closed its Union Station location on March 6. (Caroline Brehman/CQ Roll Call) Sen.
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This restaurant was trapped behind the Capitol razor wire
“Then Jan. 6 came around,” said owner John Valanos. The fencing came a day later, a day late.