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March 14, 2007
The new Capitol Visitor Center's great hall should be named in honor of President Abraham Lincoln, U.S. Rep. Zach Wamp (R-Tenn.) said at a House subcommittee hearing yesterday.
Wamp made the suggestion during a hearing on the center before the House Appropriations subcommittee on the legislative branch. The hall is the centerpiece of the $600 million underground project adjacent to the Capitol's East Front.
Wamp, the subcommittee's ranking minority member, said the hall ought to bear Lincoln's name to honor the president and the slaves who helped build the Capitol and to differentiate the visitor center's great hall from the great hall in the Library of Congress's Jefferson Building, across from the Capitol.
Wamp said it would be fitting to name the hall in time for the 200th anniversary of Lincoln's birth in 2009.
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