WASHINGTON: The House on Tuesday will vote on a bill that would remove Confederate statues from the U.S. Capitol, including a bust of a former Supreme Court chief justice.
The legislation would require states to remove and replace any statues honoring members of the Confederacy in the National Statuary Hall Collection in the Capitol by prohibiting “persons who served as an officer or voluntarily with the Confederate States of America or of the military forces or government of a State while the State was in rebellion against the United States” from the collection.
The House passed similar legislation last year, but it stalled in the Republican-controlled Senate. It faces a greater chance of passage now that Democrats hold the majority.
House Majority Leader Steny