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Is it Safe? Dept.; back at the Hart.(Hart Senate Office Building)(The Talk of the Town)
On the day last week that the Hart Senate Office Building reopened after three months of quarantine, anyone with questions about anthrax and fumigation could turn to Dr. Gregory Martin, the chief of infectious diseases at Bethesda Naval Hospital. Dr. Martin had been treating the staff of Senator Tom Daschle since October, when Daschle received a letter tainted with anthrax. Now Dr. Martin was spending the afternoon with Daschle's staff members as they returned to their offices. In his dark Navy uniform and white cap, he was the very image of calm and control. Dr. Martin declared that the health risk in the building was extremely small: "It doesn't matter if you're a ninety-year-old lady on chemo, if you have AIDS, if you're pregnant -- it doesn't matter." Assurances like these seemed to make him quite popular. "Can Dr. Martin be on our staff?" one young woman asked.
Senate aides reported curious findings, apart from the usual abandoned car keys, cartons of spoiled milk, and yellowing newspapers with bioterror headlines. On the bottom of a toilet seat, one aide discovered logo stickers left by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Coast Guard's National Strike Force -- government versions of the ...
- Health questions linger at Hart; EPA officials have wondered privately whether...
- Magazine article from: Insight on the News Cherry, Sheila R. April 15, 2002 700+ words
Staffers are back in the Hart Senate Office Building following the mailing of deadly anthrax powder to Senate Majority Leader Thomas Daschle (D-S.D.) and other key...
- Sorry about the smell, but at least the vents are clean: Like explorers...
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor January 24, 2002 700+ words
...found that little had changed, except how it felt to work there. 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...
- GOP Advisers Push Bush on Immigration Campaign; High Anxiety Over the National...
- Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report Bedard, Paul Knight, Danielle Walsh, Kenneth T. Allen, Edited By Kent May 29, 2006 700+ words
...fuels, and add new protections for the public against price gouging. PHOTO OP: 9:29 a.m., May 18, 2006, Hart Senate Office Building Before the Senate Intelligence Committee convenes to consider his nomination as CIA director, Air Force...
- BRAC: testimony as prepared for delivery by Secretary of Defense Donald H....
- Magazine article from: U.S. Department of Defense Speeches May 16, 2005 700+ words
Mr. Chairman, Members of the Commission. Thank you for the opportunity to discuss the Department's recommendations on Base Realignment and Closure. And thank you for agreeing to serve our country and perform what is a formidable task. Today, the Department is in need of change and adjustment. Our
- U.S. policy toward Iran: time for a change? The following is an edited...
- Magazine article from: Middle East Policy Roth, Richard Allan Maloney, Suzanne Takeyh, Ray Kemp, Geoffrey March 1, 2001 700+ words
CHAS. W. FREEMAN, JR., president, Middle East Policy Council We're here to discuss a country with which the United States has, in a very brief span of time, had relationships of vastly different characters. A quarter century ago, Iran was the preferred American "gendarme" of what we then called the
- EasyDECON Helps Rid Hart Senate Building of Anthrax.
- Press release article from: Business Wire November 16, 2001 700+ words
...of Huntsville, Ala., has successfully been used for the remediation of stairwells and freight elevators in the Hart Senate office building in Washington, D.C. Peter Beucher, President and CEO of EnviroFoam, today announced the Environmental...
- Senate office buildings shut down after discovery of deadly poison.
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) February 3, 2004 700+ words
...a deadly toxic substance in a Senate office building mailroom disrupted congressional...were decontaminated and three Senate office buildings were closed. Law enforcement...anthrax attack on Capitol Hill, the Hart Senate Office Building was closed for about...
- No Hart Senate run; still wants to be president
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times January 5, 1986 700+ words
EVERGREEN, Colo. Sen. Gary Hart announced yesterday he will not seek a third term in the U.S. Senate, adding he still has "an interest in being president." "In 1987, I will not be representing Colorado in the Senate, but I will continue to be a voice for Colorado," he told a gathering of more than
