[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 11113]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            CONFEDERATE FLAG

  (Ms. SCHAKOWSKY asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Ms. SCHAKOWSKY. Mr. Speaker, so I have heard that the Republicans 
have pulled their Interior Appropriations bill from the floor, and I 
sure hope it is because they have reconsidered their support for flying 
the Confederate battle flag, overturning an earlier decision of this 
very body by unanimous voice vote to take it down.
  Last night, unbelievably, unforgivably, House Republicans acted to 
uphold the Confederate battle flag at the very moment that South 
Carolina was voting to take it down. House Republicans surreptitiously 
rushed to have National Park Service continue to sell this symbol of 
hate and to keep the Confederate flag flying on Federal lands.
  Even worse, House Republicans tried to cloak this shady move by 
wrapping it in language about our American flag and the MIA-POW flag--
how dare they.
  Sears, Amazon, and many other retailers have stopped selling that 
symbol of hate, and that is what a Republican State Representative in 
South Carolina tearfully called it.
  It is astonishing that the Republicans are so out of touch. We cannot 
allow this shameful decision to hold. Take down the flag.

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