Capitol Hill
Though there's more than one hill in Washington DC, when people
talk about what's happening on " The Hill " they mean
Capitol Hill - a shallow knoll topped by the giant white
dome of the US Capitol building and rising at the very center of
the city. When Washington DC was first laid out, Capitol Hill was
intended to be both the symbolic and real seat of the federal
government. Home of both the legislature - Congress - and
the judiciary - the Supreme Court - this is still the place
where the law of the land is made and refined; it also holds the
newly refurbished Library of Congress .
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