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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Democrats are desiring to remove their own history and why wouldn’t they? They desire to do it again.
“No, I don’t.”
For crying out loud, I was not referring to you, but to the democrats. In a hurry.
That’s OK! And yes, the dems would like everyone to forget that it was they who were the party of secession and the the party that fought a war to preserve slavery. I think the Republicans should be encouraged to remind them (and the world) of that at every opportunity.
Sheets was a Democrat. He’s forgiven.
Too many long-termers are only in the Pubbie column because they never mess with the KKK 'heritage'. And there's stuff like this:
Republicans should push a bill to denounce and remove Byrd, LBJ, etc.
There is a difference between Confederates defending their homeland and Byrd who was just KKK.
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