The amendment, which was part of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2024, failed 230-192 after 24 #Republicans sided w/ #Democrats in voting against it. Most Republicans… supported the amendment proposed by Rep #AndrewClyde; no Democrats did.
The memorial was removed in Dec after a years-long congressional effort to remove #Confederate names & statues from military installations across the country. The amendment would have returned the memorial… to its original spot in the cemetery.
The 32-foot bronze statue depicted, among other images, an #enslaved#Black woman, described on the cemetery website as a “mammy” figure, holding the #White child of a #Confederate officer, & an enslaved Black man following his Confederate enslaver into battle, according to the cemetery.