About the bill
It’s the first bill ever introduced by Alabama’s freshman Rep. Jerry Carl.
Context
In recent years, amid a national reckoning on race in America, numerous statues of former Confederate leaders came down, as structures from schools to military bases were also renamed. Others warned that the movement was a slippery slope.
“George Washington was a slaveowner, so will George Washington now lose his status? Are we going to take down statues to George Washington? How about Thomas Jefferson, because he was a major slave owner?” former President Donald Trump asked rhetorically in 2017. “You’re changing history. You’re changing culture.”
A new bill in Congress would prevent many of the national capital’s most prominent landmarks, including ones dedicated to Washington and Jefferson, from being renamed or physically altered.
What the bill …
Sponsor and status
117th Congress (2021–2023)
Introduced on Mar 1, 2021
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13 Cosponsors (13 Republicans)
Position statements
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H.R. 1445 is a bill in the United States Congress.
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