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  Hart Senate Office Building - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Hart Senate Office Building, the third U.S. Senate office building, was built in the 1970s.
Construction proceeded, and the building was first occupied in November of 1982.
Located on Constitution Avenue, between 1st and 2nd Streets, NE Situated the farthest from the Capitol, the Hart Building was connected underground to an extension of the existing Congressional Subway to the Dirksen Senate Office Building.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hart_Senate_Office_Building   (790 words)

  
 Dirksen Senate Office Building - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Dirksen Senate Office Building was the second office building constructed for members of the United States Senate in Washington D.C. and was named after the late Minority Leader Everett Dirksen from Illinois in 1972.
The Dirksen Building was designed to accommodate the television era, complete with committee hearing rooms equipped with rostrums that were better suited to listening to testimony that sitting around conference tables, as had been done in previous committee rooms, both in the U.S. Capitol and the Russell Senate Office Building.
In the 1970s, a third Senate office building, the Hart Senate Office Building was built next to the Dirksen Building on a spot originally intended for a mirror image of the Dirksen Senate Office Building.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dirksen_Senate_Office_Building   (825 words)

  
 Senate Hart Office Building   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Located on Constitution Avenue between 1st and Streets NE The Senate Hart Office Building the third U.S. Senate office building was built in the First occupied in November 1982 the Hart is the largest of the Senate office It is named for Philip A. Hart long-time senator from Michigan.
Construction proceeded and the building was occupied in November of 1982.
Situated the furthest from the Capitol the Building was connected underground to an extension the existing subway to the Dirksen Building.
www.freeglossary.com /Hart_Senate_Building   (863 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.
archives.cnn.com /2001/HEALTH/conditions/12/01/anthrax.hart   (881 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..
The committee's office is on the third floor of the neighboring Dirksen Senate Office Building.
www.bu.edu /washjocenter/Spring_2002_Stories/newswire_eckhouse_hart0122.htm   (311 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.
edition.cnn.com /2001/HEALTH/conditions/10/24/capitol.anthrax   (435 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Hart Senate Office Building to reopen Friday   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Hart Senate Office Building is scheduled to reopen Friday after being closed since October because of an anthrax-tainted letter sent to Majority Leader Thomas Daschle's office, The Associated Press learned Wednesday.
The Hart building, which is across the street from the Capitol, had been closed since and EPA officials have been fumigating the building.
"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.
www.usatoday.com /news/washington/2002/01/16/hart-senate.htm   (400 words)

  
 THE DIRKSEN SENATE OFFICE BUILDING - html version
Senators' offices reported such a sharp increase in the volume of mail they received that they needed more staff to handle constituent services.
To transport senators to the Capitol, a new subway and pedestrian tunnel was constructed to both the old and new Senate office buildings.
Expansion of the staff in the 1 970s required construction of a third office building, which was named in 1976 for Senator Philip A. Hart, a Michigan Democrat with a reputation as the "Conscience of the Senate." First occupied in November 1982, the Hart Building is the largest of the three Senate office buildings.
ublib.buffalo.edu /libraries/e-resources/ebooks/records/8226.html   (1198 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.
www.feinstein.senate.gov /shob.html   (107 words)

  
 Ricin confirmed in Senate office - The Boston Globe
WASHINGTON -- A white powder discovered in the office of Senate majority leader Bill Frist was determined yesterday to be the lethal poison ricin, prompting the Senate to limit its business, close its office buildings, and submit incoming mail to investigators for close examination.
No individual has shown clear symptoms of contamination, Frist said, but the Senate's three office buildings were closed and all of its scheduled hearings were canceled as a precaution.
But Frist and the Senate sergeant-at-arms, William Pickle, said the Senate buildings this time might reopen in three to five days, in part because the air filters installed after the anthrax attack allowed investigators to determine quickly that the ricin had not entered ventilation systems.
www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2004/02/04/ricin_confirmed_in_senate_office   (927 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)

  
 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)

  
 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.
To allow flexible office space design, Warnecke introduced a two-story "duplex suite," consisting of a Senator's office with traditional sixteen-foot ceilings and two staff levels that can be easily rearranged by the use of demountable partitions.
www.aoc.gov /cc/cobs/hsob.cfm   (387 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)

  
 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)

  
 CNN.com - More anthrax traces found in Senate office building - November 12, 2001
The Hart building is where an anthrax-filled letter was sent to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-South Dakota, almost one month ago.
Senate officials told Lugar's staff Sunday evening that small amounts of anthrax were found on a mail desk in the senator's office, which is on the third floor of the building's southeast corridor.
Capitol physician John Eisold said he isn't recommending treatment for those working in the offices because the amount of anthrax found was too small to be harmful and because the building has been closed for nearly four weeks, well past the incubation period for the biological material.
edition.cnn.com /2001/HEALTH/conditions/11/12/anthrax.senate/index.html   (285 words)

  
 C&EN: NEWS OF THE WEEK - Hart Senate Office Building Decontaminated   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
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/print/7950notw9.html   (214 words)

  
 JS Online:Hart Senate Office Building reopens
Daschle's office and the ventilation system that serves it were fumigated with poisonous chlorine dioxide gas; in other offices, chlorine dioxide liquid was used to clean hard surfaces and furniture.
A sixth-floor portion of his office closest to the anthrax hot zone still is topsy-turvy after the cleanup, with computers removed for decontamination, tables and desks on end, and doorways still encrusted with fragments of foam sealant.
The office refrigerator was emptied the previous Friday of the remains of October lunches.
www.jsonline.com /story/index.aspx?id=14735   (826 words)

  
 Fumigation Of Senate Hart Office Building Suspended Indefinitely
The Senate Hart Office Building, which houses the offices of 50 U.S. senators, has been shut since shortly after a letter laced with anthrax was opened on Oct. 15 in the office of Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, a South Dakota Democrat.
In addition to Daschle's office, the offices of 11 other senators in the Hart building have been found to have traces of anthrax, believed to have come from the letter to Daschle or a similar one sent to Sen. Patrick Leahy, a Vermont Democrat.
Daschle's office, which was the only one in which an anthrax letter was opened, was by far the most contaminated.
www.rense.com /general18/sus.htm   (585 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Anthrax cleanup begins at Senate office building   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Crews were set to pump deadly chlorine dioxide gas into the Hart Senate Office Building Friday night, trying to kill residual spores of the anthrax that shut down the building almost seven weeks ago.
The rest of the Hart building was not similarly sealed, although the adjacent Dirksen Senate Office Building, connected by hallways with Hart, and the Hart underground garage were shut down as a precaution against leakage of the toxic gas.
Other senators' suites in the Hart building also need to be cleaned up, although officials so far do not believe the gas will be necessary in those areas.
www.usatoday.com /news/sept11/2001/11/30/anthrax-cap.htm   (700 words)

  
 Hart Senate Office Building to Reopen Tuesday -- 01/21/2002
The building was closed after a threatening letter was received by Sen. Tom Daschle's (D-S.D.) legislative office.
The Hart Building was set to be reopened Friday, Jan. 18, but that date was pushed back when the bag of personal protective gear was found in ceiling tiles outside Daschle's office.
Half of the Senate's members have now been displaced from their offices for more than three full months.
www.cnsnews.com /ViewNation.asp?Page=\Politics\archive\200201\POL20020121e.html   (436 words)

  
 EnviroFoam   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The foam, developed at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, N.M., was selected after Federal officials decided last week to begin some remediation methods in the building rather than wait and rely solely on chlorine dioxide gas.
Earlier this month, Beucher announced EasyDECON was successfully used for the first time commercially, eliminating anthrax from the mailrooms of the Ford and Dirkson Congressional office buildings in Washington, D.C. The EPA has contracted with EFT for materials, equipment and technical support in the remediation of contaminated federal buildings.
EasyDECON was chosen by the EPA not only because it kills the anthrax spore, but because it is safe, environmentally friendly and the only remediation material tested that did not severely damage the office environment.
www.envirofoam.com /News/01_Hart.aspx   (376 words)

  
 Straight From the Hart (Senate Building)
Everything they are doing is part of their right wing strategic think tanks, planning agendas that they have been developing and pushing for the past 40 years.
The last sitting Senator from either party to win the Prez election was JFK all the way back in 60.
Can we take the momentum from the fall of this empire and use it to build a better nation where a sense of equality and equity can be restored to the working men and women of this land.Or do we keep the status quo and throw empty promises at the poor and middle class.
www.democrats.org /a/p/straight_from_the_hart_senate_building.html   (6540 words)

  
 Senate Addresses   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C. 309 Hart Senate Office Bldg.
511 Dirksen Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510 Main: 202-224-6324
Washington, D.C. Office of Senator Bill Frist, M.D. 509 Hart Senate Office Building
www.teamamericapac.org /plainpages/senateaddresses.htm   (137 words)

  
 Hart Senate Office Building to Reopen Tuesday -- 01/21/2002
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www.cnsnews.com /ViewPolitics.asp?Page=\Politics\archive\200201\POL20020121e.html   (431 words)

  
 MD & VA Milk Producers: News: Releases: More   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Honorable Arlen Specter (R) 711 Hart Senate Office Building
Honorable Paul S. Sarbanes (D) 309 Hart Senate Office Building
Honorable Barbara A. Mikulski (D) 709 Hart Senate Office Building
www.mdvamilk.com /news_senate_maryland.html   (37 words)

  
 U.S. Senate Contact Information, Congressional Listings, Phone Numbers, Addresses, 109th Congress
All letters should be addressed to respective Senate office buildings, Washington, D.C., 20510.
Thad Cochran (R) 113 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Robert Bennett (R) 431 Dirksen Senate Office Building
www.theorator.com /senate.html   (584 words)

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