[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 106 (Thursday, July 9, 2015)]
[House]
[Page H4973]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           CALVERT AMENDMENT

  (Mr. LEWIS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. LEWIS. Mr. Speaker, 50 years ago, when we were beaten on the 
Edmund Pettus Bridge and attempted to march from Selma to Montgomery, 
there were officers of the law wearing the Confederate battle flag on 
their helmet.
  When the Klan marched through our neighborhoods in Alabama, Georgia, 
and South Carolina, countless homes in Birmingham were bombed and 
burned. When they set fire to Black churches throughout the South, the 
Confederate battle flag was the symbol of their cruelty and injustice.
  There is no way, but no way that the Federal Government should ever 
display this flag on any Federal site or sell it on Federal property. 
It is a symbol of division and a symbol of separation. It is a symbol 
of hate. It is a relic of our dark past.
  We must defeat every attempt to return this flag to Federal 
properties.

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