Speaker. today I introduced legislation to authorize procurement of a marble bust of Constantino Brumidi to be placed in the Capitols first floor Brumidi corridor. Certainly the Capitol should somewhere have a bust or portrait of the artist who did so much to beautify it. The Capitol is a far more beautiful place because of Brumidis murals. paintings. and frescoes. Constantino Brumidi left mid19thcentury Italy as a political refugee. vowing to find liberty. He found it in America. and beginning in 1855. worked 25 years to make the Capitol the inspirationally beautiful seat of liberty that it is today. I hope that the Committee on House Administration will give this legislation serious and favorable consideration.