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Jeannette Rankin is a bronze sculpture depicting the American politician and women's rights advocate of the same name by Terry Mimnaugh, installed in the United States Capitol Visitor Center's Emancipation Hall, in Washington, D.C., as part of the National Statuary Hall Collection. The statue was gifted by the U.S. state of Montana in 1985.
That convention center became known as the Albany Capital Center. The Albany Capital Center, which cost $78 million and was largely paid for using the $75 million state grant that had been set aside for the ACC, opened on March 1, 2017. The Albany Capital Center is a meeting, ballroom, and exhibit venue.
The capitol's galleria area on the first floor includes hearing rooms, display cases, and the visitor information area. [19] Oregon's House chamber floor is covered with a custom carpet; the carpet's pattern incorporates a depiction of the state tree, the Douglas-fir, representative of forestry.
Logo of the United States Capitol Visitor Center. Date: 2008: Source: Extracted from PDF version of the U.S. Capitol Visitor Guide (direct PDF URL ) Author: U.S. Government: Permission (Reusing this file)
The FBI estimates that between 2,000 and 2,500 people entered the Capitol Building on January 6, [60] [61] [62] with some vandalizing and looting, [63] [64] including the offices of then-House speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Congress members. [65] Rioters also assaulted Capitol Police officers and reporters, and attempted to capture and harm ...
It is displayed in the United States Capitol Visitor Center and depicts Keller as a seven-year-old child standing at a water pump. The statue represents the seminal moment in Keller's life when she understood her first word: W-A-T-E-R, as signed into her hand by teacher Anne Sullivan.
The 2020 United States presidential election was the 59th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 3, 2020. [a] The Democratic ticket of former vice president Joe Biden and the junior U.S. senator from California Kamala Harris defeated the incumbent Republican president, Donald Trump, and vice president, Mike Pence. [9]
The expanding collection has since been spread throughout the Capitol and its Visitor's Center. With the addition of New Mexico's second statue in 2005, the collection is now complete with 100 statues contributed by 50 states, plus two from the District of Columbia, and one for all the states, a statue of Rosa Parks. Alabama, Arizona ...