Though there's more than one hill in Washington DC, when people talk about what's happening on " The Hill " they mean Capitol Hill - a shallow knoll topped by the giant white dome of the US Capitol building and rising at the very center of the city. When Washington DC was first laid out, Capitol Hill was intended to be both the symbolic and real seat of the federal government. Home of both the legislature - Congress - and the judiciary - the Supreme Court - this is still the place where the law of the land is made and refined; it also holds the newly refurbished Library of Congress .

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