National Statuary Hall

But as I was walking around, I've been up there many times around the Capitol.

You know, you go in the rotunda of the Capitol and There's Statuary Hall.

One of the very first statues you'll see is Roger Williams, a preacher.

Founded Rhode Island.

Wearing his official US House member lapel pin, Congressman Cloud challenged us directly on our duty to preserve the constitutional boundaries established by the founders.

Rick Green then walked us through the historic crypt, the rotunda, and Statuary Hall.

Uh, the old-- Statuary Hall is the old House of Representatives.

Meticulously pulling back the curtain on deeply Christian background and religious character of the framers of the Constitution, he showed us through their own personal journals, legislative acts, and explicit Bible imagery embedded in the Capitol's network, that the American Republic was intentionally constructed upon a biblical worldview of law and human liberty.

And I think that's probably the biggest takeaway from the week right there.

As another Republican Senate aide pointed out to me, Waters, who is 88, had been working on housing legislation longer than some Capitol Hill staff members had been alive.

on june sixteenth the two committees sent out a news release they had a deal the senate passed the twenty first century road to housing act on june twenty second and the house passed it the next day all that was left for the bill to become law was the president's signature that trump had issued no public statements on the legislation for the past four months after so forcefully expressing himself at the beginning of the year did not seem portentous to anyone at the time speaker Johnson's office announced that a signing ceremony would take place the following day at noon in the Capitol's Statuary Hall.

Mike Flood was walking over to the Capitol for the ceremony the next morning when he looked down at his phone to see a text message.

It links to a Truth Social post from 1026 that read, Today's housing news conference and signing is hereby canceled until such time as we pass the desperately needed Save America Act, which I consider to be a national emergency.

Remember the phrase? And so she was in Washington on what was National Hot Dog Day, and she was in the rotunda there.

In Statuary Hall, I guess it is.

And she had interviewed some of the most famous names in Washington in the U.S. Senate.

You might recognize their voices talking to them about hot dogs and Michigan foods.

He was and quite candidly remains a blue-collar man who just bothers to learn your name, bothers to learn your spouse's name, bothers to know what your kids want, bothers to know when your mother's birthday is.

Statuary Hall was packed with friends, with former staff who he was and remains hopelessly devoted to, and them to him.

And there were members from both sides of the aisle.

Kevin has a unique way of making everyone feel special.

She's like a cigar store Indian, uh, in the, uh, Senate.

They should have a wooden carving of her in the, like Statuary Hall, don't you think, of being an Indian with a thing and holding cigars or something? Uh, just amazing.

No, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

And Elizabeth Warren talking about Abdul El-Sayed and how much she loves Abdul El-Sayed, who would also, um, uh, be inclined to firebomb the Jewish governor's mansion in Pennsylvania.