At the US Capitol, anthrax has already been found on a mail-processing machine that handled the Daschle letter, and on a mail bundler.
Former Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, along with dozens of senators, congressional leaders and other dignitaries have attended the event at the US Capitol.
The letter was detected during a routine inspection of mail and did not reach the US Capitol or Senator Wicker's office, a Senate leadership aide was quoted as saying.
Let me take you to the legislation that you and Congressman Jesse Jackson have put forth and that is to honor the late Rosa Parks with a statue at the US Capitol.
In a rare appearance at the US Capitol on Wednesday, Mrs Clinton spoke alongside Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman John Kerry and Republican Senator Richard Lugar, also urging the Senate to ratify the treaty in response to a "continuing threat that is posed to our country".
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When Mary Zurhorst Gray was a young girl living in 1920s Washington DC, she used to watch the great dome of the US Congress building, the Capitol, from her home two blocks away.
As for the US response, the fact that leading Democrats on Capitol Hill, House Minority Leader Steny Hoyer and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, felt it necessary to distance themselves from Obama's statements about Israel's final borders makes clear that Netanyahu successfully rallied the American public to Israel's side.
The onus is on, now, all of us, both Capitol Hill and the White House, to ensure that we do all that we can to plug those shortcomings.
The White House will see a silver lining in today's grim GDP figures, if they help to remind the negotiators on Capitol Hill of the fragility of the US recovery.
On the other side from Republican Kline is Democratic Congresswoman Susan Davis from California, and she joins us from her office at the Capitol.
NPR's David Welna has been following the debate on Capitol Hill, and he joins us now.
After a strong turnout Black Friday weekend, Hurricane Sandy hit, we witnessed tragedy in Sandy Hook, while those on Capitol Hill literally left us hanging on the fiscal cliff.
It's peace in our time on Capitol Hill, but the risk of a formal US default was always tiny.
In 2004, China's state-run Beijing Evening News carried an Onion report that said the US Congress was threatening to move out of Washington unless a new Capitol was built.
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As US federal debt approaches its statutory ceiling, confidence on Capitol Hill is growing that a deal to raise the limit will soon be struck, avoiding the theoretical possibility of default.
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