Posted on 07/06/2020 4:30:42 PM PDT by Libloather
House Democrats are pushing forward with their efforts to remove artwork and monuments honoring Confederate figures from the Capitol.
Nearly one month after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) called on lawmakers to introduce legislation that would allow for Congress to remove the pieces, two bills have been proposed that appear headed toward floor votes.
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) plans to bring a bill he originally introduced in March to the floor, The Hill reports.
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Congressional Black Caucus Chairwoman Karen Bass (D-Calif.) and House Rules Chair Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) have co-sponsored the legislation.
Speaking to reporters last Wednesday, Hoyer denounced the 1857 ruling as “a terrible, terrible decision inconsistent with what America stands for, and what America said it stood for, and its Declaration of Independence.”
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Aside from Hoyer’s legislation, Reps. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) and Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) introduced a bill that would grant Congress the authority to unilaterally remove Confederate statues from the Capitol.
Those statues would either be returned to the states from which they came or donated to the Smithsonian.
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This idiot actually enjoys the riots.
By their logic, the Dems ought to expel themselves from Congress given their history.
They must be really worried about that Black vote coming out in November.
They think they have an issue that will sting Trump.
Oh, how I wish President Trump would tweet THAT
Democrats pushing a Bill to Hide Their Heroes
Golly, if we had a republican with a spine they would stop this nonsense and point out the hypocrisy.
Since do not have that, we are stuck.
I hate history erasers whether they are Democrats, Republicans, the Taliban or ISIS.
If they were to start removing Byrd-named stuff in West Virginia, they’d have to remove one per hour from now until Election Day 2024 just to finish the job!
Just a suggestion, but if the Byrd monument(s) was (were) smashed to bits by masked vandals...
“They think they have an issue that will sting Trump.”
Lincoln offered Gen Robert E Lee the position of Secretary of War.
So explain to me again how Lee is a “Traitor”?
Actually why AREN’T any Republipukes doing a tit-for tat and pointing out their hypocrisy on Robert Byrd statues and his KKK ties and make them own it and disavow him.
They’re hiding under their desks.
Want to remove Confederate statues.
What Tucker said just now bears repeating..how do you expect people to run this country when they absolutely despise it and that is a legitimate question..the Democrat Party, they absolutely without a shadow of a doubt, despise the United States of America, so how do we expect them to run the country
Well it will be very difficult to cram the black vote into buses and drive all over to get people to vote.
Want to remove Confederate statues. (?)
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