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A Republican congressman from South Texas has proposed renaming 16th Street NW as Ronald Reagan Boulevard. Rep. Henry Bonilla, co-chairman of the 2000 and 2004 Republican national conventions, quietly introduced the 106-word resolution before Congress adjourned for summer recess July 28. As word has spread in the nation's capital, neighborhood Web logs in the overwhelmingly Democratic city have crackled with disbelief, and elected D.C. leaders yesterday joined in protest. The Republican chairman of a key House committee also criticized the idea. "Regardless of your political affiliation, most people agree that Ronald Reagan was an American icon," Bonilla, a former TV...

Freepers should all vote in this poll! This bill would rename 16th Street after Reagan Blvd. This would make it so that the AFL-CIO sits on Ronald Reagan Blvd. The libs are going bannanas. WTOP POLL

Proposal to Rename 16th Street, N.W. WASHINGTON -- A proposal to rename 16th Street in Northwest is going nowhere. A bill was introduced just before summer recess on Capitol Hill by Congressman Henry Bonilla (R-TX), who wants to rename the street Ronald Reagan Boulevard. The bill has now been referred to the committee of Government Reform, headed by Virginia Congressman Tom Davis. Davis tells WTOP he plans to put the bill in the "appropriate file." "I think the proposal is ridiculous. We have named Ronald Reagan Airport, we have the Ronald Reagan building downtown, but I think if Congressman Bonilla...