it was named for senator philip hart of michigan. ironically, he was one of the senators who had rejected the naming of the russell and dirksen buildings. he felt it was too soon since they had died. a longer. , 25 years had gone by, say could really tell a summer was historically famous or just famous at the time. but senator hart was well-liked. he was known as the conscience of the senate. while still living, the senate voted to name this building after philip hart. the building opened in 1983. it was empty for a while. newspapers had been terrible about writing stories saying there was extravagance, that congress should not be spending so much money on themselves. it was going to be a big building and had to house a lot of people. it had to be adjusted for the computer age. it was going to be expensive. it was going to house lots of visitors coming here, lots of constituents, lots of people who come here because of hearings that were going on. so, you had to have a large space. and it was going to be expensive. but that could be

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it was named for senator fell apart from michigan -- senator philip hart. theically, he was one of senators who had resisted the naming of the russell and dirksen buildings. he felt it was too soon since they had died. but senator hart was well-liked. he was known as the conscience of the senate. while still living, the senate voted to name this building after senator hart. 1983, and it in was empty for a while. the newspapers had been terrible about writing stories saying there was extravagance, that congress should not be spending so much money on themselves. it was going to be a big building and had to house a lot of people. it had to be adjusted for the computer age. it was going to be expensive. there were lots of visitors coming here, lots of constituents, lots of people because of hearing going on. you had to have a large space. and was going to be expensive but that could be used against you when running for office. political lot of the campaigns argued that the hart extravagance.n people were reluctant to move into the building. but the leadership p