D.C. Statue Bill Moving in House

Press Release

Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) called House Administration Committee Chairman Daniel Lungren (R-CA) yesterday evening to thank him for introducing a bill (H.R. 3106) to permit the District of Columbia and the U.S. territories to have one statue each in the U.S. Capitol. Norton, an original cosponsor of the bill, said she expects the bill to pass the House, as it did last Congress.

"I am grateful to Chairman Lungren for his consistent leadership and for introducing this bill, which is important to the recognition of our citizenship in our country," said Norton. "I have no reason to believe that a non-controversial bill that passed the House last Congress by voice vote under suspension of the rules will not pass again."

Last Congress, Norton, seeing no way to get her bill giving the taxpaying residents of the District two statues in the U.S. Capitol, as each state is entitled to, through both houses of Congress, accepted the Lungren bill, because of the strong desire by D.C. residents to see the city commissioned-statues placed in the Capitol. Several years ago, in anticipation of passage of Norton's two-statue bill, D.C. chose and created statues of Frederick Douglass and Pierre L'Enfant, both D.C. residents known for their contributions to the city as well as the nation. The District will have the option to select a statue of any deceased District resident when the bill passes.

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