Capitol Dome damage is so bad, 'We're going to lose it,' warns senator

[flowers]

http://washingtonexaminer.com/capitol-dome-damage-so-bad-were-going-to-lose-it-warns-senator/article/2547320?rel=author

Lawmakers are rallying around the 150-year-old U.S. Capitol Dome, weather-whipped and torn open by acid rain, worried that if an 11th-hour restoration isn’t fully funded, its most important traits could be lost forever.

“If this work isn't done,” warned Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D., “we're going to lose the dome, we're going to lose it as it truly, historically is.”

A big fix, added Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., is needed, “so that we don't lose these treasures forever.”

The two Senate appropriators are joining to help Architect of the Capitol Stephen T. Ayers secure the money needed to complete the $60 million restoration projection, set to go into final stages next month with the erection of scaffolding to surround the whole dome, just like that done recently at the Washington Monument.

[massadvj]

When I look at the bad that has come out of that building and compare it to the good, I say let it fall.  With any luck, it'll happen while both houses are in session.

[flowers]

When I look at the bad that has come out of that building and compare it to the good, I say let it fall.  With any luck, it'll happen while both houses are in session.

[Charlespg]

When I look at the bad that has come out of that building and compare it to the good, I say let it fall.  With any luck, it'll happen while both houses are in session.

I can think of a whole bunch of congresscritters  I'd like to see smashed underneath