[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]When I was there in May, a tour guide said that the statue of Freedom atop the Capitol would be cleaned and refurbished this year, as it is every few years. I imagine what you saw was the scaffolding? If this is what it's about, the process takes a couple of weeks.

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]I could be wrong, though. This seems like a very odd time of year to be doing that kind of work.

In any case, that's all I can think of. Maybe someone else knows different and you'll hear from them later on.

That was in like February I think. Anything beats the summer, when it comes to DC...

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Glad to hear they're actually willing to keep the Capitol from falling down.

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]Thanks!

I think it needed some major repairs?

Congress has a bad habit of underspending on the Capitol.

Maybe I'm a jingoist, but I think our Capitol should be an awe-inspiring building. That doesn't, say, fall down at random...

It'll take more than a paint job and some spackle to eliminate the cancer.