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Posted on 09/05/2001 8:13:03 PM PDT by kristinn

The House of Representatives returned from its summer recess today with the millstone of California Democrat Gary Condit hanging around the collective necks of Members.

Waiting to greet them and Condit was the D.C. Chapter of Free Republic. At 8:30 a.m., Dave Dilegge and I went to Condit's office bearing gifts for him and his staff. The media seige outside the 2nd floor office in the Rayburn building had not fully returned to its pre-recess strength--just two members of the media were on stake out duty.

Newspapers were piled by the locked office door, so we left our gifts on the floor in front of it for all to see: three black Condit Zone t-shirts, each spread out with the message facing up.

At 12:30, we gathered on the grass in front of the House chamber at the East Front of the Capitol to urge the Members to 'clean House' and expel Condit if he won't resign.

We averaged about 10 FReepers during the almost two hours I was there. Some of us brought our own signs, but mostly we used signs made by tgslTakoma--who couldn't be there.

Our modest gathering drew the attention of a reporter from WUSA-9, the D.C. CBS affiliate, who interviewed a few of us on camera. Pedestrian traffic was light around the Capitol grounds, even though the weather was gorgeous. A few tourists approached us to give their support of our call for Condit's expulsion, or to ask questions about the situation. Periodically, Dave would walk around and pass out fliers to passersby.

Congressman were hard to find as the time approached for the recess to end at 2 p.m. Only a few dozen walked outdoors to get to the House chamber. One we did see was Peter King (RINO-NY)who was yucking it up with a reporter as he walked by about 100 feet in front of us. King ignored us when we asked him if he thought it was time to clean House--starting with Gary Condit.

He did look over to see who was talking to him, but at least he didn't give us the finger like he did the last time we saw him.

The Honor Roll for today: Dave Dilegge, Gore War Vet, Hail Caesar, GunsAreOK, AntiTyrant, Leadpenny, AU Eagle, BruceFromMtVernon, two whose names I didn't write down (sorry), and kristinn.

D.C. Chapter FReep 5 Sep - House of Representatives:

House Entrance U.S. Capitol Building
Press Area - Not Much Action
D.C. Chapter FReep Line (L-R) Kristinn, Gore_War_Vet, Smash Imperialistic Liberalism, Hail Caesar, Gunsareok
D.C. Chapter FReep Line - Side View
D.C. Chapter FReep Line - Side View - Tourist Approaches to Discuss the Issues
D.C. Chapter FReep Line - Passerby's Take it In
(L-R) Lead Penny, "Smash" and GunsareOK
(L-R) Kristinn, Dave Dilegge, Gore_War_Vet
(L-R) AUEagle721, GunsareOK, Antityrant, Kristinn

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