- The House passed similar legislation last year, but it stalled in the Republican-controlled Senate.Each state contributes two statues of historically important people to be displayed in Statuary HallAny statue removed and not owned by a state would be up to the Architect of the Capitol to address.
WASHINGTON – The House passed a bill Tuesday that would remove Confederate statues from the U.S. Capitol as well as a bust of the former Supreme Court chief justice who wrote the 1857 Dred Scott decision that denied enslaved people the right to be citizens.
“This sacred space, this temple of democracy has been defiled for too long. We ought not to forget history. We