Protesters smash the head off of a Confederate monument Portsmouth, Virginia.
In a new letter to the Joint Committee on the Library, a House-Senate panel that manages the National Statuary Hall Collection, Pelosi asked Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., and Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., to direct the Architect of the Capitol to"immediately" start removing 11 statues of men associated with the Confederacy from display in the Capitol complex.
"Especially at this time in the nation's history, when the country is galvanized by the killing of George Floyd and riveted by tens of thousands of Americans peacefully demonstrating against institutional racism, to have statues of Confederates in Statuary Hall is really at odds with who we are as a country and what we aspire to be," Lofgren, the vice chair of the Joint Committee on the Library and chair of the House Administration Committee, told ABC News.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi listens during a hearing on Capitol Hill of the House Judiciary committee about policing practices and law enforcement accountability prompted by the death of George Floyd while in police custody June 10, 2020, in Washington, DC. Each state sends two statues to the collection on Capitol Hill, and can vote in their legislatures to replace them.
"I think the best way for that to happen would be for the states to take them back, if that's what they want to do," he said on Wednesday ahead of Pelosi's letter.
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