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Headline: US Capitol Tree Lighting Ceremony

Caption: United States Senator Shelley Moore Capito (Republican of West Virginia) offers remarks during the Capitol Tree Lighting Ceremony on the West Lawn of the US Capitol. U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree is a 63-foot Norway spruce from the Greenbriar Ranger District in the Monongahela National Forest in West Virginia. The Monongahela National Forest was the first national forest to provide the People’s Tree on behalf of the Forest Service in 1970, and again in 1976. The tree was named “wa’feem’tekwi” by the Shawnee Tribe and means “Bright Star” in Shawnee.

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PersonInImage: Shelley Moore Capito