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While the most famous incident in Congress was of course the vicious assault on Senator Charles Sumner, history professor Dr. Joanne Freeman's The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to the Civil War documents over seventy violent altercations between Congressmen in just the three...

In many ways, Congress is its own funny little subculture. A lot of this is traditions of formal decorum that were normal in Western high society in the Founding era, retained in Congress and pretty much nowhere else.

The formal rules of House and Senate decorum apply strictly to the actual floor, and the party cloakrooms are directly off the floor; Rep Lamb was stopped at the door between the cloakroom and the floor. The point is that your claim that this rule is not normally enforced and/or would not have...

You'd lose; Representative Conor Lamb (a Democrat) was prevented from entering the House on his first day because he was carrying a cup of coffee. Ensuring that members of Congress do not carry prohibited items onto the floor is in fact one of the formal duties of the cloakroom staff and door...

That is actually a longstanding rule in both the House and the Senate, and everyone in Washington knows it. You can only have water in the House, and water or milk in the Senate.