When heading into Dirksen Senate office building yesterday, going to meet newly minted Senators Claire McCaskill (D-MO) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT), some friends and I ran across a huge event just past the elevators on the first floor (as you enter from the southwest doorway into the building). Peeking in, we saw it was Senator Hillary Clinton’s (D-NY) swearing-in reception … so we ducked in. Huge room, though most Senate parties are in big rooms, several bars, amazing food (yo, S, the crabcakes really were there as I promised they’d be on swearing-in day). We saw Hillary, well, we saw a huge crowd surrounding someone shorter and cameras being pointed inward. Then, to the right, we saw President Bill Clinton. He had a huge gathering around him too, but since he’s pretty tall, you could see him from far away. Below is a picture that I snapped, just about 2 meters away. It was too swamped so we couldn’t get up too close, but it was still awesome.