Nancy Pelosi sent a letter to the House-Senate panel in charge of the National Statuary Hall collection in the Capitol to take down the likenesses of 11 Confederate soldiers and officials that she said "pay homage to hate, not heritage".
Calling the halls of Congress "the very heart of our democracy" she said the statues should embody Americans' "highest ideals" - not men "who advocated cruelty and barbarism to achieve such a plainly racist end".
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