WASHINGTON _ The U.S. Senate Thursday passed with a veto-proof majority a Defense spending bill that includes a provision to remove the names of Confederate officers from 10 military bases.
All four senators from Kansas and Missouri backed National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) including Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley, who had vehemently opposed language requiring Fort Bragg in North Carolina and other Confederate-name bases to be renamed.
Hawley lambasted the provision, drafted by Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren, as an effort to erase history and a veiled attack on President Donald Trump's supporters. He offered his own amendment to strip out the renaming requirement and instead establish a commission to consider input from local stakeholders before bases could be renamed.
