Democratic congressman introduces bill to create National Parks program to remove Confederate monuments

Illinois Rep. Bobby Rush introduced a bill that would allow the federal government to fast-track the removal of Confederate monuments throughout the country.

Rush, a Democrat, revealed a piece of legislation that would create a program within the National Parks Service that would be responsible for facilitating the removal of all Confederate monuments from federal lands in the United States. The program, which would be called the Emancipation Historic Preservation Program, would replace Confederate monuments with monuments to emancipated slaves.