Posted on 07/08/2015 7:19:20 PM PDT by kristinn
In a surprise, Republicans late Wednesday moved to overturn limits on the sale and display of the Confederate flag that had been approved a day earlier by the U.S. House, setting up a showdown vote for Thursday on whether the National Park Service should allow sales of the flag and on how the Confederate flag should be displayed at certain federal cemeteries.
The move was unexpected, coming as lawmakers were quietly finishing debate on a spending bill that covers operations of the National Park Service.
Rep. Ken Calvert (R-CA), the lead Republican on the measure, had been giving final wrap-up remarks about the legislation, when he suddenly interrupted his own speech to offer an amendment that would nullify several actions taken by the House on Tuesday related to the Confederate flag.
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But as news spread about the two amendments from Huffman, and one from Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), it was obvious there were misgivings, especially among Republicans I quizzed from the South.
That led to the offering of a surprise amendment, which will put the House on the record about the Confederate flag, and whether it should be sold in National Park Service gift shops and book stores, as well as whether the rebel flag should be displayed at some federal cemeteries on a regular basis.
(Excerpt) Read more at jamiedupree.blog.wsbradio.com ...
Wow, that’s constuctive. Uncomfortable because what he’s saying is true and the others won’t?
Oh, never mind. I just read your tagline.
Many thanks for those posts #3, #10 & #21, cripplecreek!
Ping to these!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3309479/posts?page=21#21
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3309479/posts?page=10#10
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3309479/posts?page=3#3
Very important points; veterans are veterans, Confederate or Union.
Back the revisionists off on that basis.
Bttt
There is this guy you should read about his name is Ted Cruz.
Ebay and Amazon still sell nazi flags of every type all the time.
The Nazis were a political party, not a nation. Every German who fought in WWII fought under the German flag. The Nazis were a subset, not all of Germany.
Every german who fought for Germany in ww2 fought under the nazi flag. The Nazis and Germany became one under Hitler. So no the nazis were not a subset in Germany once Hitler had absolute power.
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.
Many thanks for this info!
German battle tanks had the cross not the swastika. German aircraft had the cross, not the swastika. They have the same cross today, long after the Nazi flag ended.
You’re right. Looking at the uniforms they have various military insignia. Guess hitler didn’t get around to influencing that.
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