Sen. Jon Tester today announced -- with understandable relief -- that he was moving out of his temporary basement office to a second-floor suite more befitting a United States senator.

What's more, he's getting an historic Russell Senate Office Building office that was once occupied by former Sens. Frank Church of Idaho and John Glenn of Ohio.

"Not a day goes by that I am not reminded of the awesome responsibility of this job and those who have walked these halls before me," said Mr. Tester, Montana Democrat. "The opportunity to work for my state in the same room that Frank Church and John Glenn worked for theirs is a special honor."

He plans to move late next month.

Mr. Tester noted that the more than 100-year-old Russell building has played host to some of the most famous events in Senate history, including hearings on the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, the Army-McCarthy Hearings in 1954, and the Watergate investigation in 1973.

The building was also the setting for the Frank Capra's 1939 film, "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington."

-- S.A. Miller, Capitol Hill correspondent, The Washington Times