United States Capitol

The United States Capitol, informally known as Capitol Hill, is the headquarters of the United States Congress, located in Washington, D.C.
== History ==
=== U.S. Senate Armed Forces Committee ===
: "You are hereby ordered to appear before the Senate Armed Services Committee tomorrow morning at 9 am."
: ―U.S. Marshal to Tony Stark[src]
In 2023, Tony Stark was summoned to the Capitol to attend a Senate Armed Forces Committee with the intention of obtaining the Iron Man armor for military application, using the development of similar suits over the world in retaliation as an excuse. Senator Harrington Byrd, head of the Committee, tried to coerce Stark into handing over the Iron Man Armor as a weapon, but Stark refused, arguing that as the armor was not a weapon, but a high technology prosthesis, and that he and the armor were one and the same, the petition would be comparable to slavery or prostitution.
Byrd summoned Justin Hammer, one of Stark's business rivals and the current Department of Defense Weapons contractor, as an expert consultant. Hammer argued that the armor was a weapon of incalculable possibilities, and that although Iron Man had played an important role in diminishing global security threats, he is not enough to give people an adequate feeling of safety, and that he would not be able to prevent all potential threats to national security. Byrd then summoned Lieutenant Colonel James Rhodes, who wrote a detailed report about the potential of the Iron Man Armor.
Rhodes was asked to read an out-of-context fragment of the report, where the Iron Man Armor was declared as a potential threat to national security, given that he did not operate as an official member of the United States Government. The next argument of the Committee were a series of images obtained and seemingly confirmed by intelligence officers that there were operative attempts to reproduce Stark's technology.
However, Stark showed a video of some of the failed attempts, such as armors made by North Korea, Iran and Hammer Industries, in order to prove that their excuse of the development of similar suits over the world was not an imminent threat that required handing over the Iron Man armor. Stark finished his own exposition arguing that he served as a dissuasive, and that he had successfully privatized world peace. The public support for Stark made Senator Byrd lose composure before postponing the session.
== Appearances ==
In Chronological Order:
* Iron Man 2
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