The House has signed off on a bill that inches the District closer to having a statue installed in the Capitol.
Although each of the 50 states has a pair of statues in the Capitol, the District’s have been relegated to One Judiciary Square.
But the House on Monday supported a bill that would move the city’s statue of Frederick Douglass, the abolitionist leader, onto the Hill. The lower chamber approved the bill by voice vote.
A similar measure is before the Senate, where its sponsor, Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., said he’d seek to send the measure to President Obama by the end of the year for approval.
