Kevin McCarthy
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy also voted in favor of removing some statues and paintings of Confederate figures from the Capitol. However, while on the House floor the Republicans noted that those figures being removed were Democrats.
“All of the statues being removed by this bill are statutes of Democrats,” McCarthy said from the House floor. “Today, the Democratic Party has doubled down on what I consider this shameful history by replacing the racism of the past with the racism of the critical race theory.”
