Interesting Times

Waiting to enter the Cannon Building

Maurico and Saurav on the Cannon Balcony- "I'll break you in half. Like a boy!"

Destiny, Alexis, Saurav, Maurico, Shiny and Yusra

 In Rayburn House Office Building prior to hearing on Boko Haram and the Nigerian school girls. L-R Yusra, Dustin, Shiny, Sean, Maurico and Saurav

Nigerian high school student Deborah Peter (15) with (right) Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee Rep. Ed Royce (R-Ca) and (left) Ranking Member Eliot Engel (D-NY).  Miss Peter described in a private meeting with the committee how Boko Haram killed her father and her brother and burned down her church.

Deputy Assistant Secretary for African Affairs Amanda Dory and State Department Undersecretary for Civilian Security, Democracy and Human Rights Sarah Sewall testified to the committee

From one extreme to another....

Above and below- Rep. Jose Serrano's office

The Crypt

Watching George Washington's accession to Heaven in the Rotunda

Martin Luther King

The old Senate Chamber

Thanks for Rep. Serrano staffer Frederick for bringing us to the Crypt, Rotunda and Statuary Hall

Wish we were going back tomorrow