Philadelphia. Originally thats what it was. But in the years the city of washington, d. C. Is being built, philadelphia serves as our temporary u. S. Capitol. This room serves for the house of representatives. The second floor of the building that well see in a moment was the United States senate. The house of representatives, each representative at that point in our history represented 30,000 people. We had a population at our first census of about 3 3 4 million. We had six members of the house would sit in this room and eventually from 16 states. The story of the u. S. Capitol is the story of where were taking a new constitution and actually operating it, doing things like adding new states to the original 13. Also the bill of rights would become a part of our constitution while philadelphia was the capitol. In fact, secretary of state Thomas Jefferson would formally announce the amendments to the constitution by basically coming to congress here in this building and officially annou
Thank you very much. Good evening my fellow americans. I appreciate so very much the opportunity to speak with you tonight. Mister speaker, you can and governor, friends, distinguished guests, our country has been through a long and trying period. With the outcome of the president ial election not finalized for any of us could ever imagine. Vice president gore and i put our hearts in hopes in our campaigns. We both gave it our all we shared similar emotions, so i understand how difficult this moment must be. For Vice President gore and his family. He has a distinguished record to her service as a congressman, a senator, and a Vice President. This evening, i received a gracious call from the Vice President. We agreed to meet early next week in washington, and we agreed to do our best to heal our country after this hard fought contest. Tonight, i want to thank all the thousands of volunteers and Campaign Workers who worked so hard and might be have. I also salute the Vice President and h
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Been reached and passed now democrats and republicans together face a test before constituents are countryman and our creator the New York Times on october 18th summarized the question now posed to house and Senate Republicans and democrats compromised by compromise donald trump has hammered away at what republicans once saw as foundational virtues decency honesty responsibility and yes even civility but on to say will they commit themselves and their party wholly to mr trump embracing even his most anti democratic actions or will they take the 1st step toward separating themselves from him and restoring confidence in the rule of law madam speaker we have seen republican courage throughout our history. From the civil war to the cold war in 1950 Margaret Chase smith the senator from maine a republican spoke bravely against the cancer of mccarthyism in our party leaving 6 several republican colleagues in a declaration of conscience against their own leadership we are republicans they dec