Rep. Don Young keeps an "animal trophy" collection in Rayburn - his personal office includes animals from North America.
From “me” walls to taxidermy, each congressional office is decorated to suit the style of the member who occupies it. We explore what office decor says about the men and women elected to serve in Congress.
Matthew Shuckerow, press secretary to U.S. Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska), in front of the Kodiak bear that greets visitors to Young's office in the Rayburn building.
Rep. Don Young keeps an "animal trophy" collection in Rayburn - his personal office includes animals from North America.
A collection of hats from Alaska, in Young's outer office.
Young keeps an "oosik" gavel on this desk - it's made from a walrus penis bone.
U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Michigan) made sure that local touches from her district, like this Shinola blanket, were part of her new office in the Cannon building.
Dingell , who now holds the seat her husband occupied for decades, has made her new space her own. The quilt on the right hung in John's office as well.
A collection of gavels from John Dingell's time in Congress.
The model cars Dingell keeps around are a nod to the auto industry - a big part of the district she represents.
Dingell insisted our reporting team visit the office of her neighbor in the Cannon building - Erik Paulsen (R-Minnesota), who has a Wenonah canoe hanging on the wall in his personal space.
Paulsen's office also includes a Schwan’s ice cream freezer.
Rep. Bill Foster (D-Illinois) was a physicist before he joined Congress. His office includes a mercury barometer, located on his left, that's been passed down from generation to generation of physicists in Congress.
Many of Foster's scientific achievements are too large to keep in his congressional office. He keeps an historic artifact around that maintains his connection to science - a piece of graphite from the first nuclear reactor, which went critical in 1942 at the University of Chicago.
A photo of Foster with two other phycisists who no longer serve in Congress - Rush Holt of New Jersey and Vernon Ehlers of Michigan.
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