In the Entrance Hall on the State Floor, crystal snowflakes hang from the ceiling above visitors as they walk toward the Blue Room, home to the official White House Christmas Tree, also decorated in honor of military families.
From the Ground Floor Corridor rooms, transformed from their early use as service areas, to the State Floor rooms, where countless leaders and dignitaries have been entertained, the White House is both the home of the President of the United States his family and a museum of American history.
The bill, proposed by state senator Elaine Alquist, is set to sail through the health committee, onto the state senate floor, and, eventually, into California state law.
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The minimum wage (the floor for state pensions) is going up by 11% this month, more than inflation (though less than the 30% demanded by some of Mr Cardoso's allies).
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State Senator Jim Kastama was in a meeting with fellow Democrats on the third floor of the Washington state Capitol building in Olympia when the quake struck.
Drew Greenblatt is an enthusiast: proud of his company, Marlin Steel, and proud of the factory floor packed with state-of-the-art equipment.
Clinton spoke to the AP Thursday in her outer office on the seventh floor of the State Department less than 24 hours before she walks out for a final time as boss.
The reason, according to reporters Michael Isikoff and David Korn: Armitage did not want to give the White House a pretext for placing the blame where it belonged - with the disloyal denizens of the State Department's seventh floor.
But as he stood on the sun-splashed 86th floor of the Empire State Building, he was 1, 050 feet above ground level and had just led the U.S. to a snowy win over Costa Rica and a draw at Mexico that got the Americans' World Cup qualifying campaign back on track.
Condoleezza Rice was confirmed by the Senate as secretary of state, but not without a raucous floor debate initiated by Democrats.
State Hospitals provided a nine page report on floor covering and how a national newspaper got its information, whereas NHS Borders produced a report into the death of a baby during childbirth that runs to less than a page.
State police and FBI tactical teams entered the first floor of the abandoned building around 8 a.m.
State police and FBI tactical teams entered the first floor of a building in Herkimer around 8 a.m.
And are the Democratic members of those legislatures correct to simply leave the state and not deal with the legislation on the floor?
Last week, my colleague wrote about Judge Robert Bacharach, who was recommended to the White House by one of his Republican home state Senators, but waited 263 days for a floor vote before being confirmed 93-0.
Roxbury's deputy fire chief said his team of about 10 volunteer firefighters was in the second floor of their station house at 42 State Road about 7:30 p.m. when someone noticed a glow out the window from the fires.
As Wichita State prepares to dance its feet across the Final Four floor, its athletics program stands to be compensated mightily.
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Right now, Washington sets a floor on mandatory benefits, but then each state gets to push it higher with no penalty for imposing requirements that raise costs.
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Early accounts held at Pentillie state that Sir James' statue was placed on the first floor of the mausoleum, looking out of the windows.
As the thorough and at times interactive tour moves up each floor, visitors learn about the beer's state-of-the-art brewing process, its "cooperage" (barrel-making) and how it's transported to more than 150 countries.
For the past four weeks lawyers for Bank of America and MBIA Inc. have been sparring in a crowded second-floor courtroom in downtown New York City over whether state insurance regulators should have let MBIA split itself in half in back 2009, separating its business of insuring mortgage-backed securities from its business of insuring municipal bonds.
Consider Expo, Home Depot's new, upscale shopping experiment specializing in state-of-the-art kitchens and baths and in floor coverings.
While senators are in Washington, their days are scheduled in fifteen-minute intervals: staff meetings, interviews, visits from lobbyists and home-state groups, caucus lunches, committee hearings, briefing books, floor votes, fund-raisers.
The charge against him alleges that at he locked Ms Findlay in the flat, and allegedly placed the 46-year-old in such a state of fear and alarm that he caused her to fall from the fifth floor window.
And on the same floor at the Sprint Center, 13th-seeded La Salle knocked off Kansas State and No. 12 seed Ole Miss beat fifth-seeded Wisconsin.
After the 1998 crisis businessmen who had lost everything picked themselves off the floor and started again, and the same thing may happen this time, although state interference in business has increased.
"There's human waste all over the floor in some of the bathrooms and they're overflowing -- and in the state rooms, " he said.
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"There's human waste all over the floor in some of the bathrooms and they're overflowing -- and in the state rooms, " he said last week.
Ministers of Science and Education from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro and the Republic of Srpska also took the floor, as did the Deputy Minister from The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and the State Secretary of Serbia.
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