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  • Who was Sen. Richard Russell, the man whose name is on a Senate office building?

    08/27/2018 6:19:01 AM PDT · by rightwingintelligentsia · 45 replies
    Cox Media via WPXI ^ | August 27, 2018 | Debbie Lord
    Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said this weekend that he will introduce a resolution to rename the Senate's Russell Office Building for Sen. John McCain, who died on Saturday at his home in Arizona. McCain died 13 months after he was diagnosed with glioblastoma, a form of brain cancer. Schumer, D-New York, praised his colleague as an American patriot and said he would introduce the resolution “so that generations remember him." "As you go through life, you meet few truly great people," Schumer said in a statement. "John McCain was one of them. His dedication to his country and the...
  • Schumer proposes naming Senate building after McCain

    08/25/2018 6:45:47 PM PDT · by jazusamo · 95 replies
    The Washington Times ^ | August 25, 2018 | Stephen Dinan
    Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer said Saturday he will push to rename one of the Senate’s office buildings after the late Sen. John McCain. The building Mr. Schumer has in mind is the Russell Senate Office Building, named after Sen. Richard Russell Jr. Mr. Russell was a conservative Democrat from Georgia who was seen as an opponent of the civil rights movement, making his name on a Senate building controversial.