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D.C. Gets Representation - In Statuary Hall
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WTOP Radio & Online (DC) |
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Thursday, December 16, 2010 |
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Nathan Hager |
D.C. is a step closer to getting representation -- in the Capitol's Statuary Hall.
The House Wednesday night passed a bill that allows the nation's capital and U.S. territories to erect one statue in the hall.
The 50 states each have two statues.
The two statues that D.C. had hoped to install in Statuary Hall now reside at Judiciary Square.
They are of abolitionist and D.C. native Frederick Douglass and the original architect of the nation's capital, Pierre L'Enfant.
The District will have to decide which of the two to send to Statuary Hall.
Before that, though, the Senate has to pass the bill.
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