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Bill to ban Confederate monuments on federal property
BY CRISTINA MARCOS - 08/17/17 05:28 PM EDT
... Democratic Reps. Adriano Espaillat (N.Y.) and Dwight Evans (Pa.) are introducing the bill amid renewed furor over whether Confederate statues in the Capitol and localities across the nation should be taken down.
"We recognize these symbols for what they are and for the abhorrence they represent, still today," Espaillat said in a statement. "We defeated the Confederacy once, and we must be willing to defeat it once again, now and forever, as the tribute to the legacy we leave behind for the next generation" ...
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/347026-democrats-unveil-bill-to-ban-confederate-monuments-on-federal-property
