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CAPITOL VISITOR CENTER
Congressman Wants Hall Named for Lincoln
The new Capitol Visitor Center's great hall should be named in honor of President Abraham Lincoln, U.S. Rep. Zach Wamp (R-Tenn.) said at a House subcommittee hearing yesterday.
Wamp made the suggestion during a hearing on the center before the House Appropriations subcommittee on the legislative branch. The hall is the centerpiece of the $600 million underground project adjacent to the Capitol's East Front.
Wamp, the subcommittee's ranking minority member, said the hall ought to bear Lincoln's name to honor the president and the slaves who helped build the Capitol and to differentiate the visitor center's great hall from the great hall in the Library of Congress's Jefferson Building, across from the Capitol.
Wamp said it would be fitting to name the hall in time for the 200th anniversary of Lincoln's birth in 2009.
-- Michael E. Ruane
METRORAIL
D.C. Man Struck, Killed by Train at Station
A man was fatally struck by a six-car train at the Columbia Heights Metro station at 1:41 p.m. yesterday, Metro officials said. Eyewitness reports said that the 57-year-old man jumped onto the tracks of the inbound Yellow Line train headed toward Huntington. His name was not released, but officials said he was a D.C. resident.
Green and Yellow line trains shared one track around the scene while police and emergency personnel investigated. Trains were single-tracked between the Georgia Avenue-Petworth and U Street/African-American Civil War Memorial/Cardozo stations. Metro also used shuttle buses to take passengers from Georgia Avenue-Petworth to Columbia Heights and U Street.
