House to vote to remove Confederate statues from the Capitol

[riversedge]

Source: nbc news



The measure passed the House in the last Congress but stalled in the GOP-controlled Senate.
June 29, 2021, 7:03 AM CDT


WASHINGTON — The House is set to vote Tuesday on legislation to remove Confederate statues from public display in the Capitol as well as a bust of Chief Justice Roger B. Taney who wrote the 1857 Dred Scott decision that said Black people couldn’t be citizens.

The measure passed the House in the last Congress but stalled in the GOP-controlled Senate. Last year, 72 Republicans voted with Democrats to take the statues down.

Democrats hold a razor thin majority in the Senate and would need 60 votes to advance the bill.

When the measure was reintroduced in the House earlier this year, House Majority Whip James Clyburn, D-S.C., cited the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, in which some Trump supporters paraded Confederate flags and other symbols of hate, as a reason to do away with the statues.

“On January 6th, we experienced the divisiveness of Confederate battle flags being flown inside the U.S. Capitol," Clyburn said in a statement. "Yet there are still vestiges that remain in this sacred building that glorify people and a movement that embraced that flag and sought to divide and destroy our great country. This legislation will remove these commemorations from places of honor and demonstrate that as Americans we do not celebrate those who seek to divide us.”

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Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-vote-remove-confederate-statues-capitol-n1272581?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma

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moscow mitch will just say NO.

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[Ferrets are Cool]

1. Isn't it just inconceivable that we have statues of people who tried to overturn out Government

in OUR Capitol. I just don't understand it at all.

[riversedge]

2. and I do not understand how Repugs can not be repulsed by #MAGA folks walking through

our Capitol with confederate flags!!

[Ferrets are Cool]

3. Repuq's remind me of the Borg, without the intelligence.

The Borg are cybernetic organisms linked in a hive mind called "the Collective". Repuq's stick together like the Borg, regardless of how stupid or vile the action.

[Botany]

4. "I do not understand how Repugs can not be repulsed by ... confederate flags!!"

[DownriverDem]

6. Look who they are

Most have southern roots. Most have been brainwashed about the Civil War. Then over the years the south has glorified those who fought for the south. It should have never happened.

[keithbvadu2]

10. (To the GOP): Thank God you republicans won that war back in the 1860s.

[11 Bravo]

13. The last time they were on the correct side of an issue.

[DownriverDem]

5. Folks need to

understand that the Dems need to win more elections. It does no good to attack them when they don't have the votes. It makes me want to scream when I do hear folks blaming the Dems. Focus on GOTV for the Midterms of 2022. It's about beating trump and MAGA. We did it in 2018 and can do it again.

[mountain grammy]

7. Good. About damn time.

[tinrobot]

8. ...but stalled in the "GOP-controlled" Senate.

They have 50 votes to our 51. Yet they "control" it.

Grrrrrr....

[groundloop]

9. That was the LAST Congress, when Moscow Mitch was Majority Leader

What's sad is that there's a good chance not even 10 GOPer Senators will concede to letting this come up for a vote this time around.

[keithbvadu2]

11. Do the southern Congessfolk get 3/5 of a vote?

Do the southern Congessfolk get 3/5 of a vote?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

12. Good