The Architect of the Capitol published 44 pages of thank you notes sent to Capitol employees from people across the U.S.

The planned facility along Louisiana Avenue and Constitution Avenue would connect the Metropolitan Branch Trail to protected bike lanes downtown.

Just in time for inauguration.

The rest of the project will be finished before the next year’s presidential inauguration.

A two-year restoration project will begin in early November.

Architect of the Capitol, the federal agency that provides information about the historic Washington building, has released a “visual timeline” showing 200 years of growth around the National Mall.

For decades the Capitol Power Plant has burned coal as a means to power federal government buildings, dumping noxious chemicals into the city’s air. But after years of complaints from environmental activists and promises from congressional officials, the power plant is finally cleaning up its act.

The House Appropriations Committee approved today an amendment that would continue to permit film production companies to continue to shoot in Union Square.

Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton would like the U.S. Capitol and its surrounding office buildings to become more friendly toward visitors from Hollywood. She’s asking her colleagues to allow film production on more parts of the Hill.

Union Square, which some feared would be closed off to film production after jurisdiction over it was transfered from the National Park Service to the Architect of the Capitol, will remain open to commercial photography and filmmaking.