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Lawmakers Hope New House Day Care Will Keep Staff On Capitol Hill

A new day care facility is opening Jan. 2 for employees in the House of Representatives which will reduce the wait list for childcare from three years down to one.
The playground of the new day care facility for staff and lawmakers in the House of Representatives evokes the skyline and the many monuments of official Washington.

Within sight of the U.S. Capitol dome, a new dome is about to open. It's on the playground of a new day care facility exclusively for U.S. House employees, and the playground is designed in part to look like a kid-sized National Mall.

"This is the only Washington Monument in D.C. that you can climb up," joked House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., who helped inspire the playground's design.

McCarthy will become minority leader

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