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There is no thermostat in the U.S. Capitol.

Only thermometers.

And that’s why congressional leaders are struggling to lower the temperatures in Congress after the murder of Charlie Kirk .

As a veteran congressional reporter, I lost count of how many efforts I witnessed to try to "lower the temperature" around Capitol Hill after a national tragedy.

Oh, they might knock a degree off the mercury for a few weeks here and there – sometimes helped by a political cold front (e.g. a lengthy congressional recess). But just like in meteorology, the political gales blow. Weather systems develop. There are dips in the jet stream. Droughts parch the political landscape. Alberta Clippers race through in November and December. All of t

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