The Briefing Room
General Category => National/Breaking News => Topic started by: flowers on April 25, 2014, 03:40:31 pm
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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.
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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.
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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.
:patriot:
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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