For the second time in a week, police have arrested someone for trying to bring a gun into the Cannon House Office Building.
Ryan Shucard, who was arrested Friday, it “was a total accident” that he left a gun in his bag.
Sep 15, 2009
Capitol Hill’s Last Smoking Rooms Prepare to Close
Photo by cacophony76 The last two smoking rooms on Capitol Hill, in the Cannon and Longworth House Office Buildings, will close for good this week, The Hill reports. How can Congressional office buildings even have smoking rooms anymore? Because they are technically exempt from D.C. law, so they aren’t subject to the workplace smoking ban the District enacted at the beginning of 2007. But when Democrats took over Congress a couple years ago, they…
Jun 25, 2009
Partial Ceiling Collapse at Cannon HOB
Photo by Grundlepuck Several sections of ceiling tile on the 3rd floor of the Cannon House Office Building fell down this morning, injuring a U.S. Capitol Police officer, The Hill is reporting. The ceiling pieces, which The Hill describes as “a few” tiles but The Post says was a 15-foot section, fell at about 10 a.m., sending FEMS responders to the scene. The officer was taken to the hospital with minor injuries. The building…