She does not want to. It’s all a careful PR act.
She’s super far to the right, all in. That’s her position and it’s just fine with her.
I mean you still could have whispered it to her, but it would have been more like a trolley than encouragement.
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Very different from ours 
Ours mostly focused on the art: the sculptures, statues, and paintings. The guide gave a lot of context for the paintings especially. One guy in the tour group got a little huffy about the recent removal of a Robert E Lee statue, muttering mostly under his breath about wokeness 
I wish our tour would have been more focused on the legislative/historical aspects, but it was very worthwhile, and to get slightly back on topic, no one was obviously scoping the place out for Insurrection Part 2.
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Agreed. If you’re going to whisper anything to Collins and want to get to her, ask if “he learned his lesson.”
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Way back in the early 90s my brother was in the Navy and was at Bethesda Naval Hospital for some tests. I flew down to meet him and we took a day to wander around DC.
We got some passes form our congress person and walked into the capitol, it wasn’t a formal tour, we just wandered around staying within the roped off areas. We did manage to get down to the senator’s garage, we saw Ted Kennedy’s parking spot with a car in the spot, I assume his. We rode the electric train thingy between the capitol and the office building. Way cool.
We went back over to senate in session. Robert Byrd was giving a boring speech in support of some bill so we didn’t stick around.
We started wandering around and walked with confidence like we belonged. We went past a bunch of roped off areas and up a lot of stairs. Finally, when we were up pretty high in some big hallway a man and a woman with earpieces talking into their lapels approached us. They questioned us, realized we were harmless but unable to follow the rules so they escorted us out and asked that we didn’t return that day.
Point is, I suspect they knew where we were every step of the way and based on that experience I would never attempt any type of wrong doing because they really do watch you.
Might not be the case anymore but because I’m afraid of jail I still wouldn’t attempt anything like those people.
My brother also got us a cool one on one tour of the Pentagon that day.
I was also tackled by a cop on a federal air strip once, it’s a long story and reason 357 why I haven’t had a drink in over 36 years. I really am afraid of federal authorities.
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My great aunt could get us congressional tours-- we saw behind the scenes in the capitol one year and behind the scenes of the fbi another.
I’d recommend that sequence to Loudermilk’s visitors, followed up by a behind the scenes tour of USP Hazelton
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