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Senate Committee Advances Bill to Transfer Control of RFK Stadium to District of Columbia

The Commanders celebrated the development.
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Senate Committee Advances Bill to Transfer Control of RFK Stadium to District of Columbia
A view of Robert Fitzgerald Kennedy Stadium in Wahington on June 12, 2002. Doug Pensinger/Getty Images
Jackson Richman
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WASHINGTON—A Senate committee advanced a bill on Nov. 19 to transfer control of Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium from the federal government to the District of Columbia, setting up the possibility of the NFL’s Washington Commanders to move back to the nation’s capital from Maryland.

The vote in the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee was 17–2.

Jackson Richman
Jackson Richman
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Jackson Richman is a Washington correspondent for The Epoch Times. In addition to Washington politics, he covers the intersection of politics and sports/sports and culture. He previously was a writer at Mediaite and Washington correspondent at Jewish News Syndicate. His writing has also appeared in The Washington Examiner. He is an alum of George Washington University.
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