Speaker Nancy Pelosi asks for Confederate statues to be removed from the US Capitol
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) sent a letter to Sen Roy Blunt (R-MO), who chairs the Joint Committee on the Library, tasked with managing Statuary Hall in the US Capitol building. In the letter, she requests 11 statues that represent failed Confederate soldiers and generals be removed. “Among these 11 are Jefferson Davis and Alexander […]