[WardFive] Fw: PRESS RELEASE: Norton Planning Celebration as President Signs, Issues Statement on Bill to Move First D.C. Statue to U.S. Capitol

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Albrette "Gigi" Ransom
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    September 21, 2012                                                                        o: 202-225-8050

 

 

Norton Planning Celebration as President Signs, Issues Statement on Bill to Move First D.C. Statue to U.S. Capitol

 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said today that she is already at work on plans for a big celebration for the day the District of Columbia's Frederick Douglass statue comes to the U.S. Capitol, and noted that the President's decision to issue a statement on signing the bill (H.R. 6336) was unusual for any bill.  "The magnificently done Frederick Douglass statue is larger than life, and so is its move to the Capitol," Norton said.  "Determined to take their rightful place in the Capitol, District residents selected and the D.C. government commissioned the Douglass statue six years ago.  With the Douglass statue, the District of Columbia goes into the Capitol alongside the 50 states, signifying our insistence on the equal treatment with the states that we seek."

 

The Douglass statue will take its place in the Capitol with statues from the states, such as Colorado's statue of Astronaut Jack Swigert, Jr. and Alabama's statue of Helen Keller.  The Joint Committee on the Library has up to two years to complete the move of the Douglass statue from One Judiciary Square to its new home in the Capitol, but Norton is pushing for an early move, complete with a big celebration when the statue arrives, the usual case when states move statues into the Capitol.

 

http://www.norton.house.gov/

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