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November 1982 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING OCCUPIED FOR THE FIRST TIME SenateMajority Leader Howard H. Baker became the first occupant of the new Hart Senate Office Building in November. Planning for this third Senate building began in the late 1960s, with Senate offices once again straining for space. Hart's nine stories, originally conceived as an extension of the adjoining Dirksen building, included flexible suites for 50members and addional floors for garage and service facilies. Its total area: 1,271,030 square feet. November 7, 1983 BOMB EXPLODES IN SENATEWING A group calling itself the Armed Resistance Unit claimed respon- sibility for a bomb that exploded on the second floor of the Senate wing of the Capitol on the evening of November 7, 1983. No one was injured in the explo- sion, which damaged walls and furniture, blew the door off the roomof the Senate Democrac Leader, and defaced the portrait of Daniel Webster. The blast led to heightened securitymeasures and the installaon ofmetal detectors at building entrances. Damage to the second floor hallway caused by the 1983 bomb explosion SUMMER 2012 THE CAPITOL DOME 19 1982 1983 U.S. SENATE HISTORICAL OFFICE