Named for Sam Rayburn (D-TX) Speaker of the House (1940-1947, 1949-1953), the longest serving Speaker in U.S. History. Room numbers are 4 digits and begin with 2.
Approved to be built in 2001. Cost was $621 million. Opened in December 2008. 580,000 sq. ft. (larger than the Capitol itself).
What's it look like when Federal Budget arrives at the Capitol? Watch this YouTube video. Mehr erfahren.
Check out C-SPAN’s documentary: “The White House: Inside America's Most Famous Home” (Trailer here on YouTube) Mehr erfahren.
Built between 1848 and 1884. It’s 555’5-1/8’’ tall and has 897 steps. See the C-SPAN video of the reopening of the Monument in 2002, after its renovation. Mehr erfahren.
Architect Daniel Hudson Burnham designed Union Station which first opened October 27, 1907 and cost more than $25 million. Learn more from Author Christopher Buckley in this C-SPAN Book TV Video. Mehr erfahren.
Newseum numbers: 250,000 sq. ft., 35,000 historic newspaper front pages, 15 theaters, 8 sections of the Berlin Wall (each is 3 tons), First Amendment tablet on Pennsylvania Ave. is 50 tons of marble.
Cemetery - 624 acres, where veterans and military casualties from each of the nation's wars are interred. See video for more history. Mehr erfahren.
19 Statues: 14 Army, 2 Marines, 1 Navy, 1 Air Force. Each weighs~1,000 lbs. Reflected on the wall it creates the image of a total of 38 statues, symbolic of the 38th Parallel & 38 months of the war. Mehr erfahren.
The spot where Martin Luther King, Jr. stood to give his "I Have A Dream" speech is engraved on the landing eighteen steps below Lincoln's statue. Check out this video for more history on the Lincoln Mehr erfahren.
4th of July Fireworks are set off above the reflecting pool, between the Lincoln and World War II Memorials between 9:00-9:30 p.m. ET.
The Full Moon Exhibition in the Rose Center contains more than 75 rarely seen photographic prints from NASA's Apollo missions to the moon and are done in both impressive scale and stunning quality. Mehr erfahren.
Going to be in Times Square on New Year's Eve to ring in 2013? Look up to see @MarsCuriosity featured on the Toshiba Vision screens right under the ball.
Did you know that one of the windows contains a moon rock? There is a tiny piece of the moon embedded in the 'Space Window,' delivered there personally by the astronauts who brought it back. Mehr erfahren.
