A statue of Frederick Douglass commissioned by D.C. will soon be moved to the U.S. Capitol.

A D.C. statue of abolitionist Frederick Douglass is moving from a D.C. government building to the U.S. Capitol.

A Senate spending bill for D.C. that passed this week would allow a statue of Frederick Douglass to be moved from a D.C. government building in Judiciary Square to the U.S. Capitol’s Statuary Hall.

Eight months since Congress last broached the issue, the District is still no closer to winning itself a place in the U.S. Capitol’s Statuary Hall.

Achieving statehood would obviously take a while, but how long should it take D.C. to get a single statue in Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol? Just as long, as it seems.

And now we turn back to the most important issue in these trying times: just when in the hell is the District going to be getting its spots in Statuary Hall?

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In just a few months, fans will finally get a glimpse of the new $611 million baseball stadium rising in Southeast. No longer will they simply be looking at an artists rendering — they’ll get to see the new concourse, the stands, the suites and the field for themselves. And today the Post’s Marc Fisher poses an interesting question — beyond the bricks and mortar, what should the team’s owners offer inside the stadium? After…

A new statue is heading to the National Statuary Hall Collection in the U.S. Capitol — but it’s not either of the long-requested two statues to represent the District of Columbia. Alabama has decided to replace one of its two statues, of Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry, a former congressman, Confederate general and professor who advocated for free universal education, with one of Helen Keller, the famed Socialist Party activist and the first deaf and blind…