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WASHINGTON — The hallway where an angry mob of rioters first broke into the U.S. Capitol looks exactly as it did before the attack.
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The shards of broken glass that once littered the marble floor are long gone. The reinforced doors that were smashed through have been replaced. A blood-stained bust that witnessed Capitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman bravely confront the mob has been restored, its face smeared with red no more. The mayhem is but a memory.
There’s nothing to greet visitors, either: No plaque marks Jan. 6, 2021, one of the darkest days in U.S. history.
But the scars of that day are evident in other ways, especially in the House of Representatives, where members are facing an avalanche of threats at home and even from fellow colleagues at the Capitol. They’re spending more on personal security than ever. The metal detectors that were installed at entrances to the House floor following the attack are still standing, a glaring reminder of the poisonous atmosphere that has pervaded over the past year.
“The tone gets, you know, tougher and tougher. It is a pretty toxic place. I’ve never seen anything like this before,” Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.), who has served in Congress for 35 years, noted in a CNN interview last week.
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