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Washington Times: Push to rename Senate office building for McCain fizzles: 'We are left with a monument to bigotry'
Richard Russell survived another scare.
The segregationist Democrat’s name continues to adorn the Senate’s oldest office building, despite promises by top senators that this would be the year they finally erased it and replaced it with the name of their newly departed colleague Sen. John McCain.
“Nothing will overcome the loss of Senator McCain, but so that generations remember him I will be introducing a resolution to rename the Russell building after him,” Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, New York Democrat, said on Twitter just after McCain’s office announced his death.
Four months later, the resolution was never introduced.
Mr. Schumer’s spokesman clammed up when asked what happened.
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WNU Editor: I just love how Washington works. Everyone always wants something, and the currency that everyone uses is the ability to promise to give what other people want. Senator McCain is now gone, he and his family cannot give anything. And what is worse .... with the exception of (maybe) Senator Flake, most are happy that he is no longer there. There will be no monument for Senator McCain in Washington, and he will be forgotten very soon (if not already).
