How the U.S. Capitol gets ready for the State of the Union

[Yahoo! News]

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It may only draw half the viewers it once did, but for staffers at the U.S. Capitol, Tuesday night’s annual State of the Union address by the president is their Super Bowl. It is the single most complex logistical undertaking held each year in the United States’ more than 200-year-old central legislative building. Months of work by press gallery staff, the House and Senate sergeants-at-arms and Capitol Police are required to stage the event properly for television cameras around the world.

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