Capitol Hill

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The top DoJ official, Acting US Attorney General Todd Blanche, travelled to Capitol Hill on Thursday to try and ease Republican senators' concerns, but was unsuccessful.

From BBC • May 22, 2026

The new figure, revealed by the Defense Department during a budget hearing on Capitol Hill, is about $4 billion higher than the estimate offered by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth two weeks ago.

From Barron's • May 12, 2026

The expectation on Capitol Hill was that the 60-day deadline expires tomorrow.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026

After all, when Queen Elizabeth II came to Capitol Hill in 1991, two dozen members boycotted, mostly in protest of the British presence in Northern Ireland.

From Slate • Apr. 28, 2026

Three months later, a six foot, two-hundred-fifty-pound army colonel named Leslie Groves was walking down the hallway of a congressional office building on Capitol Hill, in Washington, D.C.

From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin