Conversations around racial issues have grown
super charged during this presidential election season and part of that
seems to have rubbed off on Capitol Hill in a debate over naming a post
office after award-winning poet and Civil Rights activist, Maya Angelou.
On days when the House of Representatives does
not have much to do by way of work, the body names
post offices. Usually
these are fairly mundane affairs, the body will unanimously vote to
approve the naming of a post office no matter what member puts the
request forward.
That was the case today when a vote to rename a post office in California to "Medal of Honor" post office passed 381-0.
However, it was not for the next vote, cast to
rename a post office in Winston-Salem, N.C. after Civil Rights icon Maya
Angelou. That measure passed with only 371 votes.
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Source: NBC News
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