Slavery. Again.
Congressman Zach Wamp* (TN-R) was invited to the White House Tuesday for his first private bill signing ceremony in the Oval Office.
President Bush signed into law legislation that Congressman Wamp sponsored to officially name the great hall in the new U.S. Capitol Visitors Center “Emancipation Hall”.
The Capitol Visitor Center will be an extension of the Capitol that welcomes visitors to the seat of American government and is expected to open in November 2008. At nearly 580,000 square feet, the CVC is the largest project in the Capitol’s 212-year history and is approximately three quarters the size of the Capitol itself.
Emancipation Hall will be the largest room in the Capitol.
* Republican Congressman Zach Wamp voted ‘Yea’ to limit spending on border security, which will effectively renounce the wishes of the American public to secure the border, but he sees fit to grovel at the feet of his liberal peers by honoring dead slaves.
Congressman Wamp said, “It is really the right thing to do and the right time in history. It really speaks to freedom. When slaves were emancipated, it was a defining moment in our history. It also honors the slaves that built the Capitol.”
Congressman Wamp worked with Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. of Illinois on the bill to memorialize the country’s struggle against slavery and honor the slaves who helped build the Capitol.