Then terrorists attacked the United States on September 11, 2001.
Hours after planes were flown into buildings in New York City and Washington, DC, and nearly 3,000 perished, Congress put politics aside and came together at the US Capitol in a moment shaped by fear, followed by resolve.
“When people perpetrate acts against this country, we as a Congress and as a government stand united,” said then-House Speaker Dennis Hastert, a Republican from Illinois, on the steps of the Capitol, hours after members and staff were told an airliner might be headed for the building.
“And we stand together,” he said, flanked by Democratic leaders and hundreds of members of Congress.
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Democratic US Senate candidate Raphael Warnock speaks on his campaign s YouTube account after the runoff election against Republican Senator Kelly Loeffler in Atlanta, Georgia January 6, 2021. ― Social media via Reuters pic
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ATLANTA, Jan 7 ― The deep-voiced Baptist pastor who now holds the pulpit where slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr preached made history in his uphill battle to unseat a sitting Republican to become the first Black US Senator from Georgia.
The son of a sharecropper, Rev. Raphael Warnock, who never held public office before, defeated Kelly Loeffler, a wealthy businesswoman who was appointed to the seat by President Donald Trump.
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