Raskin to introduce bill to require review of White House renovation plans — battery-less luggage scale
Renovation Oversight and Power-Free Travel Gear The jackhammers started before dawn. On cold mornings in Washington, their bite carries across Lafayette Square like a metronome. A couple passed the White House fence, cups steaming, eyes up at the scaffolding. We all do that—tilt our heads toward places that hold power and memory—trying to imagine what’s happening behind the tarps, who signs off, who checks the plans. I’d been in town to test gear, the kind of trip that ends with a carry-on that’s somehow heavier on the flight home. On my way out, I walked past the Executive Mansion’s north lawn and thought about rooms most of us will never see—gilded, historic, stubbornly practical—and about a news note from the Hill: a push to make sure the next big fix inside that house is reviewed with the same rigor as any other federal project.