Republican Conference Secretary: Paul Coverdell

Standing Committee Chairs Since 1947:

Agriculture & Forestry: Herman E. Talmadge, Saxby Chambliss

Appropriations: Richard B. Russell

Armed Services: Richard B. Russell, Samuel Nunn

Finance: Walter F. George

Foreign Relations: Walter F. George

Frescos: Columbia welcoming the South back into the Union, Secession and Products of the North and South, by Constantino Brumidi (office of the vice president).

Frieze: Peace Between Governor Oglethorpe and the Indians, executed by Filippo Costaggini after a design by Brumidi (Rotunda frieze).

Portraits:

Speakers of the House of Representatives collection: portraits of Howell Cobb by Lucy M. Stanton, Charles F. Crisp by Robert Hinckley (Speaker's Lobby, House wing, second floor).

Architecturally Significant Buildings, Construction Materials, Furniture and Objects: Richard B. Russell Senate Office Building--A fine example of neoclassical architecture dedicated in 1909 and executed in marble with outstanding interiors.

East Front exterior of the Capitol--Georgia Marble.

1960 subway system to Capitol--designed by Shelton and Stanford of Atlanta.

Senator Rebecca Felton, the first woman seated in the Senate, was at eighty-seven years old the oldest person ever sworn in as a senator for the first time and served the shortest length of service, one day.