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...Elsewhere in Washington, the Capitol building reopened Tuesday morning after a weekend of environmental testing, but the Senate and House office buildings remained closed. Both houses of Congress were back in session Tuesday. Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson appeared before a House subcommittee, where he urged faster production of anthrax and smallpox vaccines. He also answered pointed questions about the CDC response to the latest pulmonary anthrax cases...
...Capitol Hill, all that fear has made history: No war - not World War II, not World War I, not the Civil War, not even the War of 1812 when British forces burned the White House- has resulted in the U.S. Congress being evacuated. But it's just happened twice: After the attacks on September 11th and again last week...
...attack by Confederate forces so there was no need to evacuate. Ditto for the War of 1812. Congress was out of session when the British stormed Washington on Aug. 24, 1814. And Congress hadn't technically convened on Sept. 11th even though folks were cleared out of the Capitol. But you get the picture...
...House Speaker Dennis Hastert and Minority Leader Dick Gephardt looked the worst last week, recessing their chamber early so technicians could sweep their side of the Capitol complex for traces of anthrax. They're still furious at Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, who received the anthrax- laced letter but announced that terrorists wouldn't scare the Senate into recessing early. (Hastert and Gephardt insist that Daschle reneged on an agreement the House and Senate leaders had at the beginning of last week to quit early. Daschle insists he never made such an agreement. Just for the record, Senate Minority Leader...
...Meanwhile, across Capitol Hill, the House has already established a committee to investigate what failures may have contributed to September?s terrorist attacks...