Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer proposed honoring the late Sen. John McCain by renaming the Russell Senate Office Building after him.
McCain’s office was in the beaux-arts style building, on Constitution Avenue, and it’s where the committee he proudly chaired, the Senate Armed Services Committee, meets.
It might seem like an odd proposal — after all, Richard Russell was a Democrat who represented Georgia in the Senate for 38 years and who was dubbed a “senators’ senator” for his mastery of the chamber’s arcane rules and procedures. Schumer’s proposal would replace a fellow Democrat’s name with a Republican’s.
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