House panel backs bill that would place statues of Douglass, L'Enfant in Capitol

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"I want to assure members that this has nothing to do with D.C. voting rights, over which this committee has no jurisdiction," Brady said.

But the panel's ranking Republican, Rep. Dan Lungren (Calif.), wasn't buying it, saying the statues bill "tries to show that there is an equality between the District of Columbia and the other states."

Lungren offered an amendment to Norton's bill that would have reduced the District's statue quota from two to one -- making clear that the city is different from the states -- and that would have given each U.S. territory a statue.

The amendment was defeated, and the committee passed a separate bill giving one statue apiece to American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.



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