JAMES M. KUSHINER: You Might Talk Openly About the Family in Moscow, But Not in the Dirksen Senate Office Building. “Obviously no one has an absolute right to hold a meeting in the US Senate Office Buildings, but the World Congress of Families had received sponsorship from Senator Mark Kirk (R-IL) to hold a conference on the family. The Human Rights Campaign, it is reported, pressured Kirk to cancel the meeting, which he did.”