Rebuffed for years, Washington lawmakers regain Capitol dome access
Few, if any, members of the Washington state Legislature have been allowed to climb to the top of the state Capitol dome this century.
That will soon change.
A provision in the new capital budget requires 10 legislators be given a guided tour of the upper reaches of the historic building during the fiscal year that starts July 1. Another 10 must get the same opportunity in the following year.
“It’s a happy day for the institution,” said state Sen. Mark Schoesler, R-Ritzville, who’s been on a mission to ease restrictions that have boxed lawmakers out of the dome. It’s not right, he said, that lawmakers “cannot visit all the places they oversee.”
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