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Byrd’s Land Grab

By Ed Henry
Roll Call Staff
Jan. 15, 2003, Midnight

Byrd’s Land Grab. Sen. Robert Byrd’s (D-W.Va.) demand for more office space in the Capitol may result in the powerful lawmaker taking over a chunk of the “Refectory,” the historic dining hall on the first floor that has served lawmakers and tourists since the mid-19th century.

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May 22, 2012

Rumi Pazos, 6, and his mother, Christi Funk, from Orange County, Ca., attend a news conference Tuesday in front of the Capitol on the Safe Chemical Act, which would update the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976. To support the bill, Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families rallied moms, nurses and cancer survivors to participate in a “stroller brigade” throughout the Capitol complex.

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