Guests began trickling into the hall shortly after 1 p.m., moments after Trump took his oath of office and addressed inauguration attendees from inside the Capitol Rotunda.

A bill to award Congressional Gold Medals to the 1980 "Miracle on Ice" Olympic hockey team has been reintroduced in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate.

The wish list carries added weight as the GOP is poised to control both chambers of Congress and the White House once Donald Trump takes office.

Jeff Naft is now communications director for the Senate Banking Committee. He most recently was communications director for the House Intelligence Committee and is an alum of House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) and Rep. French Hill (R-Ark.).