Subject: POLITICO Breaking News: House votes to bar Confederate flag at some federal graveyards
From: "Walker, Eric" <[email-masked]>
To: Comm_D <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 19 May 2016 08:31:32 -0700

POLITICO Breaking News: House votes to bar Confederate flag at some federal graveyards

Published: 05/19/16 11:29 AM EDT

The House voted Thursday to bar the Confederate battle flag from flying over some federal graveyards, the first time the chamber has cast a ballot on the issue.

The measure, offered by Rep. Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) as an amendment to a spending bill, passed 265-159 with the support of GOP leaders. It would bar the Civil War symbol from being flown at cemeteries run by the Department of Veterans Affairs.

A similar Democratic amendment last year — offered after the racially charged shooting of black churchgoers in Charleston, S.C. — tanked an entire appropriations bill after Southern Republicans objected to it.