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House Votes to Remove Confederate Statues From Capitol Lisa Hagen © (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 18: Statues of James Zachariah George (L), a colonel in the Confederate Army and U.S. Senator from Mississippi, and Edmund Kirby Smith, a native Floridian and a Confederal general, stand inside the U.S. Capitol Visitors Center June 18, 2020 in Washington, DC. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has requested that Congress remove this statue and 10 others of Confederate soldiers and officials from the U.S. Capitol The statues in the Capitol should embody our highest ideals as Americans, expressing who we are and who we aspire to be as a nation. Monuments to men who advocated cruelty and barbarism to achieve such a plainly racist end are a grotesque affront to these ideals. Their statues pay homage to hate, not heritage. They must be removed, Pelosi wrote in the letter addressed to committee Chair Roy Blunt (R-MO) and Vice Chair Zoe Lof

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