Posted on 07/09/2015 8:56:29 AM PDT by GIdget2004
House GOP leaders canceled a vote Thursday on a spending bill for the Interior Department amid an intraparty split over the display of the Confederate flag.
The fight erupted after the House adopted an amendment from Rep. Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) late Tuesday evening to ban the display of Confederate flags in national cemeteries. It passed on a voice vote with less than ten minutes of debate.
But Republicans who found out about the amendment after the fact indicated that they would oppose the underlying bill. Even though he didn't express opposition to it the first time, Rep. Ken Calvert (R-Calif.) offered an amendment late Wednesday night to undo the previously adopted provisions. Even so, it was unclear if Calvert's amendment had the votes to pass.
"This was an attempt to codify the Obama Administration’s own directive to our national cemeteries and it is unfortunate that it has devolved into a political battle. It is our hope that we can have a thoughtful discussion on this matter that is free of politics," a House GOP leadership aide said.
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Our government at work!
Next, it’ll be a debate about angels on the head of pins.
angels on the head of pins.
According to liberals there are NO confederate
angels...only yankees and carpetbaggers.
They now have plenty of time for more important things... you know, like partying with $1000 hookers, coke, and $5 catamites.
Cue the pix of Hillary....
“ban the display of Confederate flags in national cemeteries”
I keep hearing this and I wonder what a paper tiger it is.
While I’m pretty knowledgeable about history in general and sites, and cemeteries, as they are all in my avocation, I am unaware of any NATIONAL Cem’s that have Confed graves?
What teeth does this have if there is no such thing? Is this like the Emancipation Proc - doesn’t really do anything but look nice? Seems like a non-sequitur.
Can anyone tell me how this actually applies?
Our government has gone beyond dispicable. The anger in the south is now like a boiling pot with a relief valve at 1500 psi. The left wing will find that sticking a stick at a caged Lion often does not end well.
What a moron.
I feel a bit sheepish now. Maybe indeed the Pt. Lookout Confed Cem I’ve visited several times to honor under my cem org’s name and promote the cem org actually is national property. Had no idea. Don’t know if there actually was a Confed flag there, though.
But it could VERY much mess up those annual ceremonies where Confed flags are brought.
“While I’m pretty knowledgeable about history in general and sites, and cemeteries, as they are all in my avocation, I am unaware of any NATIONAL Cem’s that have Confed graves?”
A quick look at the National Cemetery website shows there are at least 8 federally-operated Confederate cemeteries, and many more with Confederate monuments.
http://www.cem.va.gov/cem/cems/allnational.asp
Yes, the LibTards are to blame for many things, including silliness over a flag. But can we PLEASE also direct our anger where it should be? The GOP cancelled the vote, not the Libs.
Far too often we don’t see the enemies in our own living room.
Yup.
GOP trying to be “reasonable” and “uniting” again.
They’ll still be hated by the left. Doesn’t matter what they do.
When will they learn?
Boehner tried to pull a fast one for his buddy in the White Hut.
They’re trying to create the American version of the German Swastika: demonization of the prime symbol of a hated period in the country’s history.
When will they learn?
Never.
An exactly ... the Left will always hate them and always vote against them. Did I say “always”?
Congressional Appropriations Act, FY 1901,signed 6 June 1900
Congress passed an act of appropriations for $2,500 that enabled the “Secretary of War to have reburied in some suitable spot in the national cemetery at Arlington, Virginia, and to place proper headstones at their graves, the bodies of about 128 Confederate soldiers now buried in the National Soldiers Home near Washington, D.C., and the bodies of about 136 Confederate soldiers now buried in the national cemetery at Arlington, Virginia.”
(P.L. 38, 59th Congress, Chap. 631-34 Stat. 56)
Authorized the furnishing of headstones for the graves of Confederates who died, primarily in Union prison camps and were buried in Federal cemeteries.
U.S. Public Law 810, Approved by 17th Congress 26 February 1929
(45 Stat 1307 – Currently on the books as 38 U.S. Code, Sec. 2306)
This law, passed by the U.S. Congress, authorized the “Secretary of War to erect headstones over the graves of soldiers who served in the Confederate Army and to direct him to preserve in the records of the War Department the names and places of burial of all soldiers for whom such headstones shall have been erected.”
U.S. Public Law 85-425: Sec. 410 Approved 23 May 1958
(US Statutes at Large Volume 72, Part 1, Page 133-134)
The Administrator shall pay to each person who served in the military or naval forces of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War a monthly pension in the same amounts and subject to the same conditions as would have been applicable to such person under the laws in effect on December 31, 1957, if his service in such forces had been service in the military or naval forces of the United States.
They’re getting just as good as soetoro with their distractions.
GOP trying to be “reasonable” and “uniting” again.
They’ll still be hated by the left. Doesn’t matter what they do.
When will they learn?
They will never learn. They do this over and over again. Remember when President Ford snubbed Solzhenitsyn in 1975, when Bush 41 broke his "no new taxes" pledge in 1990 or when Romney excluded conservatives from any role in the 2012 Republican National Convention? These deeds gained them zero support from the Left while alienating their own base of support.
“It passed on a voice vote with less than ten minutes of debate. But Republicans who found out about the amendment after the fact”
Boehner/McCarthy/Scalise—what a leadership team.
There are Confederate graves in Arlington National Cemetery.
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