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struggle4progress

(126,260 posts) Thu Jun 23, 2016, 12:04 PM Jun 2016

House drops Confederate Flag ban for veterans cemeteries [View all]

By MATTHEW NUSSBAUM 06/23/16 11:45 AM EDT

A measure to bar confederate flags from cemeteries run by the Department of Veterans Affairs was removed from legislation passed by the House early Thursday.

The flag ban was added to the VA funding bill in May ... Speaker Paul Ryan .. has since limited what amendments can be offered on the floor.

...to reconcile the House funding measure with the Senate bill, the confederate flag provision was dropped ...

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/congress-confederate-flag-ban-224727

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House drops Confederate Flag ban for veterans cemeteries [View all] struggle4progress Jun 2016 OP

It is a racist flag. Read what the creator of the "Confederate Flag" said in his own words: BlueCaliDem Jun 2016 #1

+ struggle4progress Jun 2016 #2

absolutely disgusting. and yet, the pukes in the house saw fit to say this is okay. niyad Jun 2016 #4

If you die in your country's service and want a swastika on your grave, you should be allowed one. Donald Ian Rankin Jun 2016 #3

Has there been a recent groundswell of dead confederates demanding that struggle4progress Jun 2016 #6

Are we talking people who died fighting for the CSA and against the USA? merrily Jun 2016 #8

Recap: no vote on guns but they came back to work for that underpants Jun 2016 #5

I have no problem with this. bluedigger Jun 2016 #7

I have a problem. No one is going to forget the civil war for lack of a Confederate flag on a grave. merrily Jun 2016 #9