Capitol

I guess the toughest security line in the world is probably the queue to the Capitol building. You're not even allowed to take in an empty water bottle, let alone 50ml of insect repellent. But you have to be impressed that they can let 1000+ people an hour into the main Capitol building at all really!

I'm amazed the senate room is so small- it houses just 100 senators. And each state sends two, regardless of population which seems silly- California has 36m people and Wyoming only 540k.

And in the basement there was an excellent exhibition filled with original letters and documents from the short political history, to present day. Amazing how slavery tore the nation apart from 1790 until the 1860 Civil War- i had no idea how long and deep the debate ran.