GOP senator blocking vote on RFK Stadium in talks with Commanders on logo change

Published May 21, 2024 6:47pm ET



Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT) and the Washington Commanders are in talks to establish their first meeting since the Montana Republican took his fight public to have the football team restore its old Redskins logo of a Native American chief.

Daines is blocking swift approval of a House-passed bill that would greenlight Washington, D.C., taking control of the federally owned land that is home to the abandoned RFK Stadium, which the Commanders and city officials want to use for a new stadium.

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