POLITICO Breaking News: House votes to bar Confederate flag at some federal graveyards

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The House voted Thursday to bar the Confederate battle flag from flying over some federal graveyards, the first time the chamber has cast a ballot on the issue.

The measure, offered by Rep. Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) as an amendment to a spending bill, passed 265-159 with the support of GOP leaders. It would bar the Civil War symbol from being flown at cemeteries run by the Department of Veterans Affairs.

A similar Democratic amendment last year - offered after the racially charged shooting of black churchgoers in Charleston, S.C. - tanked an entire appropriations bill after Southern Republicans objected to it.


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