A picture posted by @careyseuthe of her and Miss Rose, a gregarious cashier in the small carryout restaurant on the Senate side of the Capitol, has made me sad anew over just how devastating it was to see the confederate flag in the building, with a primarily Black support staff.
In 2013, the sandwich maker in that small Capitol restaurant died during Ted Cruz’s ill-fated shutdown of the government. For a few days I thought maybe he was furloughed but when I realized he wasn’t, I wrote a eulogy for him in @rollcall. rollcall.com/2013/11/05/cap…
These maintenance and food service jobs at the Capitol do not pay enough but I will say that in a complex that often can feel like a high school, you get to know the people who keep the lights on and senators fed. They take great pride in this work.
Congress needs to honor their service and commitment to our country by holding those who desecrated the Capitol into account. Congress has an obligation to us to defend the republic but also to the people who work for them to ensure they feel safe every day in their workplace.
I am pretty convinced that the majority of support staff at the Capitol care more about the building, the country and their service to both than @GOPLeader does.

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9 Jan
I’m so grateful for this picture of @AndyKimNJ taken by @andyharnik. I think a lot about how I will explain difficult things to our son and this picture is a shining light: The people we send to Washington to represent us are caretakers of the most precious thing, our republic /1
I will tell him that just as we are caretakers for him on hard days and easy days, bad days and good days—and it is our highest responsibility to protect him with the pride and love commensurate with his preciousness—so, too, are our congresspeople for our government. /2
In this photo, after one of the darkest if not the darkest day in the history of the Capitol building, @AndyKimNJ took his caretaking responsibility literally, telling CBS he felt compelled to pick up the pieces because some things are bigger than us. That’s so important /3
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