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	U.S. Senate: Visitors Center Home > Maps > Senate Hart Building
		Between the opening of the Dirksen Building in 1958 and the completion of the Hart Building in 1982, the number of Senate staff grew from 2,500 to 7,000.
		Situated the furthest from the Capitol, the Hart Building was connected underground to an extension of the existing subway to the Dirksen Building.
		Critically ill at the time, Senator Hart, who had served since 1959, was the only one of three senators so honored to be living at the time an office building was named for him.
	www.senate.gov /pagelayout/visiting/d_three_sections_with_teasers/hart_senate_building_web_page.htm (993 words)

	Hart Senate Office Building - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Construction proceeded, and the building was first occupied in November of 1982.
		Situated the furthest from the Capitol, the Hart Building was connected underground to an extension of the existing Congressional Subway to the Dirksen Building.
		In the fall of 2001, several suites of this building became contaminated by the release of anthrax powder from an envelope mailed to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Senate_Hart_Office_Building (702 words)

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	United States Senate - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Senators serve for terms of six years; the terms are staggered so that approximately one-third of the Senate is up for election every two years: each time there are elections in about 33 states for one of the two seats.
		Senators are elected by their state as a whole; if both Senate seats are contested in one election year, the elections will be separate and all voters in the state will cast votes for one candidate in each of the two races.
		The first session of Senate to be open to the public was held on February 11, 1794 and on February 27, 1986 the Senate allowed its debates to be televised on a trial basis (which was later made permanent).
	open-encyclopedia.com /United_States_Senate (4259 words)

	CNN.com - Anthrax cleanup under way in Senate office building - December 2, 2001
		EPA officials said they had hoped to use the gas throughout the entire Hart building, which has been closed since October 17, but a peer review said that plan was too risky because of the size and shape of the large building.
		At a hearing this week, she told senators that her goal is to make sure the Hart building has "no viable anthrax." However, she admitted some traces may remain as long as they pose no health risk.
		Senators raised concerns about sending staff into the building, telling Whitman they were skeptical they could be sure about their safety.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/HEALTH/conditions/12/01/anthrax.hart/index.html (865 words)

	THE HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING - html version
		Between the opening of the Dirksen Building in 1958 and the completion of the Hart Building in 1982, the number of Senate staff grew from 2,500 to 7,000.
		Critically ill at the time, Senator Hart, who had served since 1959, was the only one of the three senators so honored to be living at the time an office building was named for him.
		The Senate Caucus Room, its largest chamber, served as the setting for the most famous Senate investigations, from the sinking of the Titanic in 1912 to the Watergate hearings in 1973.
	ublib.buffalo.edu /libraries/e-resources/ebooks/records/eek4792.html (1122 words)

	The Hart Senate Office Building
		The Hart Senate Office Building is the third office structure designed and built to serve the United States Senate.
		By 1967 the Senate began to experience a strain on its existing office facilities and initiated the process that led to the creation of the Hart Building.
		In August 1974, the Senate Office Building Commission and the Senate Committee on Public Works approved a proposed nine-story extension to the Dirksen Senate Office Building (the extension would later be named the Hart Senate Office Building).
	www.aoc.gov /cc/cobs/hsob.cfm (387 words)

	2001 anthrax attacks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The second group of anthrax letters were mailed three weeks later on October 9 from Trenton NJ and addressed to two Democrat Senators, Tom Daschle of South Dakota, and Patrick Leahy of Vermont.
		Feingold's office is behind Daschle's in the Hart Senate Building.
		Anthrax spores are found in a Senate mailroom located in an office building near the Capitol.
	hallencyclopedia.com /2001_anthrax_attacks (2142 words)

	CNN.com - EPA: Fumigate Hart Senate building - October 29, 2001
		Senate Majority Whip Harry Reid, D-Nevada, said the plan would be reviewed by senators and scientific experts over the next two days.
		The Hart building, which has been closed since an anthrax-laden letter was discovered in the office of Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, could reopen by November 13, Reid said.
		Although anthrax has been found in only some areas of the building, the EPA decided it would be quicker to treat the entire building rather than block off just affected sections for fumigation, Schaudies said.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/HEALTH/conditions/10/29/hart.building.anthrax (361 words)

	CNN.com - Anthrax found in new location at Hart Senate office building - October 25, 2001
		The building, which houses the office of Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle -- where an anthrax-laden letter was delivered more than a week ago -- also showed a positive reading for anthrax in the southwest quadrant next to a freight elevator on the first floor.
		Senators or their staff members will be permitted back into the Dirksen and Hart Senate Office buildings -- with written authorization -- to retrieve items from their offices.
		Senators with offices in the southeast and southwest quadrants of the Hart Senate Office building, however, will not be allowed to enter.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/HEALTH/conditions/10/24/capitol.anthrax (451 words)

	Senator Dianne Feinstein - Hart Senate Office Building
		Century, only a few senior Senators could command a small portion of the limited office space in the Capitol Building.
		The third building, named for Michigan Senator Philip Aloyisius Hart, was opened in 1982 and features an atrium with a dramatic mobile/stabile titled "Mountains and Clouds" designed by Alexander Calder.
		These buildings house the offices of all 100 Senator and the committees of the Senate.
	feinstein.senate.gov /shob.html (107 words)

	The Boston University Washington Journalism Center
		WASHINGTON, Jan. 22--The Hart Senate Office Building reopened yesterday for the first time since mid-October, and most of the 50 Senators who have offices there, including Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, were prepared to return to their familiar haunts.
		Senate staffs were scattered about Capitol Hill for the past three months, with Lieberman's staff of 35 squeezed into the office of the Governmental Affairs Committee, which the Senator chairs..
		Lieberman told a small gathering of reporters that he was relieved to find his bibles "untouched, sturdy." He was also pleased to find a model plane and model submarine in his office in good condition, and was delighted to hold a doll that his daughter Hannah had given to him.
	www.bu.edu /washjocenter/Spring_2002_Stories/newswire_eckhouse_hart0122.htm (311 words)

	Hart Senate Building Reopens, Anthrax-Free
		WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Hart Senate Office Building reopened on Tuesday after a technically challenging three-month anthrax cleanup that cost at least $14 million after a potent anthrax-laced letter was sent to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle.
		Authorities said they are confident that the nine-story Hart building, which is part of the U.S. Capitol complex, is safe after the cleanup and the examination of more than 5,000 environmental samples.
		Thousands of people who had been in Hart were given antibiotics for at least a few days, and those who had been in or near Daschle's office were then placed on a 60-day drug regimen.
	www.ph.ucla.edu /epi/bioter/hartbuildinganthraxfree.html (655 words)

	Hart Building Remains Closed For New Attempt at Cleanup
		Two weeks after it was fumigated with chlorine dioxide gas, part of the Hart Senate Office Building remains slightly contaminated with anthrax bacteria and there is no word on when the building will reopen, authorities said yesterday.
		Nichols acknowledged that he could not supply an opening date for the Hart Building, where the Capitol Hill anthrax scare began on Oct. 15 when a Daschle aide opened a letter containing a finely milled form of the bacteria that spreads easily through air.
		Earlier this week, environmental workers packed up books, files, computers and other items exposed to anthrax spores in the Hart Building and began hauling them to a company in Richmond for treatment with ethylene oxide, which is used for sanitizing medical devices.
	www.ph.ucla.edu /epi/bioter/hartbuildingremainsclosed.html (554 words)

	ABC News: Anthrax-Free Hart Senate Building to Reopen
		An e-mail memo being circulated in the Senate says the Centers for Disease Control and the Environmental Protection Agency have certified that the building is safe after weeks of decontamination procedures.
		"We expect the Hart building to reopen at noon on Friday, Jan. 18, 2002," said the e-mail memo, which was addressed to all senators and Senate staff.
		"Senator Daschle's suite where the anthrax spill occurred was fumigated successfully with chlorine dioxide gas," a second memo from the Senate sergeant-at-arms office says.
	abcnews.go.com /US/story?id=91990&page=1 (567 words)

	NTI: Global Security Newswire
		While most senators and their staff members were allowed to return to their offices, Daschle and his staff will still work out of temporary quarters until carpeting and furniture can be replaced (see GSN, Oct. 16, 2001).
		Extensive testing of the Hart building, using culture samples and thousands of test strips laced with bacteria, helped officials decide when it was safe to reopen the building.
		Senator Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) yesterday said he was concerned over the cost and called for an inquiry into the hiring and payment of contractors.
	www.nti.org /d_newswire/issues/thisweek/2002_1_23_biow.html (3023 words)

	Byron York on Hart Senate Office Building & anthrax on National Review Online
		In Hart, the presence of anthrax was confined mostly to the area in and around Daschle's fifth-floor office.
		The Senate leadership called in the Environmental Protection Agency to handle the cleanup, and at first it seemed that the job would be done in a matter of days.
		The Senate does, after all, control the Hart Senate Office Building, and the Senate has the authority to order the EPA to finish the work and hand over the building.
	www.nationalreview.com /york/york122001.shtml (1194 words)

	Cleanup effort begins at Senate building \| LJWorld.com
		The fumigation with chlorine dioxide gas was delayed for seven hours because of complications in reaching the high humidity level needed to most effectively kill the remaining anthrax spores in the Hart Senate Office Building.
		The gas is mixed in a vessel outside the building, then routed through chemically resistant plastic pipes into Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle's office suite, which was sealed off with duct tape, plastic sheets and plywood with foam.
		The rest of the office building was not similarly sealed, although the adjacent Dirksen Senate Office Building, connected by hallways with Hart, and the Hart underground garage were closed as a precaution.
	www.ljworld.com /section/diary_120201/story/75439 (608 words)

	Sorry about the smell, but at least the vents are clean \| csmonitor.com
		The Senate historians on the second floor of the Hart Senate Office Building had worried about the effect of weeks of 85 percent humidity (necessary to kill anthrax spores), chlorine dioxide gas, and decontaminant foams on their 30,000 archival photos.
		When the men in hazmat suits moved into the Hart building, fully half of the Senate lost their offices, including all the pagers, cellphones, house keys, palm pilots, and anything else left behind when offices were evacuated.
		Some Senate staff went back to their boss's home district, others doubled up offices or found themselves themselves dispersed all over Washington - much as Senate administrative work had been conducted prior to the Hart Building's construction in 1982.
	www.csmonitor.com /2002/0124/p02s01-uspo.htm (847 words)

	Chlorine Dioxide and Bleach Play a Major Role in Anthrax Remediation of the Hart Senate Office Building
		The most obvious solution for restoring use of the building was to use a chemical agent, one that was highly mobile, yet had sufficient strength to destroy anthrax spores.
		The Senator's suite was isolated and windows were fled out to minimize degradation of the chlorine dioxide gas that occurs when it is exposed to ultraviolet light.
		Some items were removed from the building and treated separately to complete the remediation, and the building was considered ready to be occupied.
	www.waterandhealth.org /newsletter/new/summer-2002/anthrax.html (1054 words)

	WUSA - Print Story
		The building was closed only as a precaution while EPA crews used poisonous gas to kill anthrax spores in the nearby Hart Senate building.
		Only liquid or foam decontaminants were needed in 11 other senators' offices in the Hart Senate Office Building, said Richard Rupert, the EPA's onsite coordinator.
		The adjacent Dirksen Senate Office Building, connected by hallways with Hart, and the Hart underground garage were closed as a precaution.
	www.wusatv9.com /printfullstory.aspx?storyid=942 (622 words)

	Senate Building Finally Reopens - CBS News
		That mix of caution and optimism was typical for the politicians and employees reclaiming the nine-story Hart building, home to offices of half of the 100 senators.
		The reopening promised something Sharon Davis, a cashier at Hart Sundry, hasn't seen for a while: a steady flow of customers into her store located only about 50 feet from the plywood barrier separating her corridor from the Hart building.
		Following repeated delays, the 1-million-square-foot Hart building was declared safe last week after several attempts to decontaminate it with chlorine dioxide, a toxic gas.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2001/12/20/politics/main321948.shtml (660 words)

	USATODAY.com - Experts may gas Hart Senate building (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Scientists may gas the nine-story Hart Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C., in a first-of-its-kind attempt to wipe out potentially deadly anthrax spores.
		All six of Congress' major office buildings and the House side of the Capitol were closed.
		Other government buildings in the Washington area have also been contaminated, but no plans have been announced on how to clean those buildings.
	www.usatoday.com /news/sept11/2001/10/31/anthrax-cleaning.htm (624 words)

	C&EN: NEWS OF THE WEEK - Hart Senate Office Building Decontaminated
		Chlorine dioxide gas was pumped into the offices of Senate Majority Leader Thomas A. Daschle (D-S.D.) in the Hart Senate Office Building on Dec. 1 during one of the final steps of EPA's anthrax decontamination efforts on Capitol Hill (CandEN, Nov. 26, page 24).
		Some buildings were temporarily closed for testing and some sections of the buildings subsequently decontaminated using chlorine bleach and an antimicrobial foam.
		The Hart Building is slated to reopen by the end of the year.
	pubs.acs.org /cen/topstory/7950/7950notw9.html (238 words)

	Society of Professional Journalists
		A bill moving quickly in the Senate would create a new Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Agency (BARDA) that would become the first-ever agency categorically exempt from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
		One lesson of the Great Influenza of 1918 — the worst flu epidemic of all time — was that its rapid spread was due, in part, to government censorship of news coverage regarding this disease.
		The bill, co-sponsored by Senator Richard Burr (R-NC) and Majority Leader Bill Frist, among others, was introduced on October 17 and promptly reported out of Committee on October 24.
	www.spj.org /news.asp?ref=538 (638 words)

	U.S. Senate: Art & History Home > The Senate Historical Office
		Serving as the Senate's institutional memory, the Historical Office collects and provides information on important events, precedents, dates, statistics, and historical comparisons of current and past Senate activities for use by members and staff, the media, scholars, and the general public.
		The office advises senators and committees on cost-effective disposition of their non-current office files, assists researchers seeking access to Senate records, and maintains automated information data bases detailing locations of former members' papers.
		This Week in Senate History: A collection of anecdotes tracing the history of the Senate through specific weeks and years.
	www.senate.gov /learning/learn_history.html (451 words)

	Anthrax Fears Again Delay Hart Senate Office Building Reopening -- 01/17/2002
		Fifty Senators and hundreds of members of their staffs were scheduled to begin moving back in Friday at noon.
		"During the rehabilitation process of the Hart Senate Office Building, what appears to be personal protective gear used in dealing with hazardous material was found bagged in the hallway ceiling outside of Senator Daschle's office on the 6th floor," according to a statement issued by the U.S. Senate.
		As late as Wednesday afternoon, workers could be seen inside the building cleaning windows and removing dead plants and trees, which had not been watered since the building was closed Oct. 17, 2001.
	www.cnsnews.com /ViewPrint.asp?Page=\Politics\archive\200201\POL20020117c.html (463 words)

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