WASHINGTON | Members of the D.C. Council have drafted a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid urging them to let the city put two statues in the U.S. Capitol, as the 50 states do.
The letter, dated Sept. 29, has not yet been sent but is being circulated among D.C. Council members for their signatures.
In the letter, the members write that it is “urgent” that Congress act to pass bills approving the statues “before Congress adjourns and our opportunity is lost.”
The city has already created the two statues it would place in the Capitol. One is of abolitionist Frederick Douglass. The other is of Pierre L’Enfant, the architect of the original plan for Washington.
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