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House passes bill to remove Confederate statues from the Capitol

House passes bill to remove Confederate statues from the Capitol Rebecca Shabad and Haley Talbot and Dartunorro Clark © Provided by NBC News WASHINGTON The House voted 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. It passed the House 285 to 120, with 67 GOP lawmakers voting in favor of the bill along with all Democrats, who hold a razor-thin majority in the Senate and would need 60 votes to advance the bill. 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.

House votes to remove Confederate statues and replace Roger B Taney bust

House votes to remove Confederate statues and replace Roger B. Taney bust CNN 1 hr ago By Alex Rogers, CNN © J. Scott Applewhite/AP/FILE FILE - In this March 9, 2020 file photo, a marble bust of Chief Justice Roger Taney is displayed in the Old Supreme Court Chamber in the U.S. Capitol in Washington. The House will vote on whether to remove from the U.S. Capitol a bust of Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, the author of the 1857 Dred Scott decision that declared African Americans couldn t be citizens. The vote expected Wednesday comes as communities nationwide reexamine the people memorialized with statues. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House passes bill to remove Confederate statues from Capitol

House passes bill to remove Confederate statues from Capitol Cristina Marcos © Getty Images House passes bill to remove Confederate statues from Capitol The House passed legislation on Tuesday that would remove artwork from the Capitol that honors people with legacies of defending slavery, including by serving the Confederacy. The 285-120 vote was bipartisan, but it split Republicans. A minority of 67 Republicans joined with all Democrats in support, while 120 voted against it. We ought not to forget history. We must learn from history. But we ought not to honor that which defiled the principles for which we think we stand, said House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), the bill s primary author. It s time to remove those symbols of slavery, segregation and sedition from these halls.

House votes to remove Roger Taney bust, Confederate statues | iNFOnews | Thompson-Okanagan s News Source

Kevin Freking FILE - In this June 11, 2020, file photo a statue of Alexander Hamilton Stephens of Georgia is on display in Statuary Hall on Capitol Hill in Washington. The House is expected to approve a bill Tuesday that would remove from the Capitol a bust of Roger Taney, the U.S. chief justice best known for an infamous pro-slavery decision, as well as statues of Jefferson Davis and others who served in the Confederacy. The statue of Stephens would be returned to Georgia. Davis served as the Confederacy’s president and Stephens was its vice president. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

GOP Congressman: Confederate Statue Removal Animated by Critical Race Theory

Loading Email address By clicking ‘Sign up’, you agree to receive marketing emails from Insider as well as other partner offers and accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. GOP Rep. Matt Rosendale of Montana on Tuesday blasted legislation that would remove Confederate statues from public display in the Capitol, decrying the effort as rooted in the concepts of critical race theory.  Rosendale, a freshman congressman who was one of 14 Republicans who voted against the formation of a federal holiday for Juneteenth, described the removal of certain statues as attacks on American history. The South lost, and our Union is strong today, and the great victory of our constitutional government in the Civil War over slavery and secession should be celebrated, he said in a statement. Unfortunately, Democrats, animated by the Critical Race The

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