This page is designed to provide information on services available through the gallery and to direct reporters to information that will assist them in covering Congress. The deadline for entries in the 57th annual Raymond Clapper Memorial Awards is May 11, 2001. Any Washington-based daily newspaper reporter or pair of reporters is eligible to submit either a single story or series of articles from 2000. Entries must be delivered to the office of the Standing Committee of Correspondents, Senate Press Gallery, Washington, D.C. 20510. It is a wide-open contest.
Subjects can be local, national or international.
Friends and admirers established the trust fund that provides the annual award money. Current gallery members MUST bring their old congressional I.D.s with them to receive the new press cards.