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Chuck Schumer @SenSchumer 11h11 hours ago

I look forward to soon re-introducing my legislation re-naming the Senate Russell Building after American hero, Senator John McCain.

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1. K n R

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2. OMGAWD.....that would be awesome.

I’m in......

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3. It is outrageous that Richard Russell's name is still on it

He was a open racist and an unapologetic segregationist.

Just a small taste, from 1964


Relocate Negroes Evenly in States, Russell Proposes

https://www.nytimes.com/1964/03/17/archives/relocate-negroes-evenly-in-states-russell-proposes.html

WASHINGTON, March 16 —Senator Richard B. Russell proposed today a voluntary “racial relocation” program to adjust the imbalance of the Negro population between the 11 states of the old Confederacy and the rest of the Union.

The Georgia Democrat, who is leading the Southern opposition in the Senate to the civil rights bill, said he would offer his proposal as an amendment to the bill when it formally becomes the pending business of the chamber. Mr. Russell, who pointed out that he had made a similar relocation proposal in 1949 but that it had been rejected, advanced the proposal today as the Senate continued to debate a motion to make the civil rights bill the pending business. The measure seeks to combat discrimination in voting, education and employment and in public accommodations.

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“If the people of the Southern states are to be forced to accept and conform to some federally dictated social order which is wholly alien to them,” Mr. Russell argued, “then think it is only fair and right that the Negro population be spread more evenly over all sections of the nation. “This would afford those who support these so‐called civil rights proposals an opportunity to put into practice in their own areas the social order that they find so desirable and which they are attempting to force upon the people of the South.

“In other words they ought to have the opportunity to practice what they preach.”

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5. Don't disagree with you there... but why not a decent Democrat instead of a RethugliKKKan?

Bernie & Elizabeth 2020!!!
Welcome to the revolution!!!

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6. I don't want McCain's name on it either, do not know how you gathered that I did.

I prefer not to honour war-mongers of any stripe or party. A vast portion of his political positions were pure shit IMHO.

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7. My comment wasn't meant to imply that... simply dumbfounded by Schumer's proposed legislation.

Bernie & Elizabeth 2020!!!
Welcome to the revolution!!!

[Celerity]

8. maybe he is trolling that POS Trump

I don't know. There are far better senators to name it after.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Ted Kennedy, Daniel Inouye, etc

I would love to see Barbara Mikulski's name on it, but she is (thankfully) still alive.

Total old school (and would also enrage modern Republicans) would be Charles Sumner,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Sumner

the leader of the Radical Republicans in the U.S. Senate during the American Civil War. He worked hard to destroy the Confederacy, free all the slaves, and keep on good terms with Europe. During Reconstruction, he fought to minimize the power of the ex-Confederates and guarantee equal rights to the freedmen.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

4. WTF? Have people forgotten what McCain stood for and the misery he helped cause?

Bernie & Elizabeth 2020!!!
Welcome to the revolution!!!