U.S. senators often move through the hallways undisturbed in office buildings around Capitol Hill, joined only by staffers as they stride purposefully en route to hearings and votes.
But when Sen. Elizabeth Dole slipped out of a hearing on Cape Hatteras National Seashore today, she was — by government-fandom standards —mobbed, Barb Barrett reports.
Two wide-eyed young Senate staffers, a middle-aged visitor in a wheelchair and T-shirt-and-shorts-clad tourist with his son all lined up for attention. They carried miniature point-and-shoot cameras, clutched pens for autographs and asked a reporter to take their picture with the senator.
Dole accommodated them one by one, grinning broadly as she signed autographs in her neat, cursive script.
She admired the magazine cover one man brought showing her and Sen. Bob Dole. "My, look at my husband!" she said, beaming.
"Wow," she added, looking around at her fans, "there's a lot going on here."
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