[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 106 (Thursday, July 9, 2015)]
[House]
[Page H4971]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     TAKE DOWN THE CONFEDERATE FLAG

  (Mr. CARTWRIGHT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. CARTWRIGHT. Mr. Speaker, I awoke this morning to find news that 
last night, in the wee hours, House Republican leadership advanced an 
amendment to allow the display of the Confederate battle flag in 
Federal cemeteries and to allow National Park Service agents to do 
business with gift shops that sell Confederate battle flags.
  Mr. Speaker, at a time when South Carolina, itself the cradle of the 
Confederacy, has outlawed the flying of the Confederate battle flag on 
their statehouse grounds, at a time when all Americans were horrified 
at the slaughter of nine churchgoers by an individual motivated by that 
battle flag, at a time when everyone understands and acknowledges that 
it is a symbol of hate, we find the House Republican leadership 
wrapping itself in the Confederate battle flag. I object to this.

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