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The generals will find new homes; the swords will be surrendered; and the Confederate artillery major's tunic will be retired from the dining room. On June 4, the 52-year-old Confederate House ...
House Republican leaders are now pulling a spending bill off the floor after a blow up over Confederate flag, an embarrassing setback for the party. CNN values your feedback 1.
The South Carolina House approved a bill early Thursday morning taking down the Confederate flag from the Capitol grounds, a stunning reversal in a state that was the first to leave the Union in 1860.
Updated at 2:15 a.m. ET Thursday: Final Vote. Early Thursday morning, lawmakers in the South Carolina House approved a Senate bill that removes the Confederate flag from the Capitol grounds.
The South Carolina House of Representatives approved removing the Confederate battle flag from the Statehouse grounds and placing it in a museum after a contentious debate that stretched into ...
They didn’t want to vote in favor of the Confederate flag just as Haley pulled down the Confederate flag. The GOP yanked the entire Interior bill from the House calendar. Then-House Speaker John ...
In 1961, to honor the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the Civil War, South Carolina lawmakers raised the Confederate battle flag over the State House. In 2000, it was ...
The Confederate flag has been removed from a flagpole on the grounds of the South Carolina Statehouse, where it has had a presence for 54 years. The Confederate flag came down just after 10 a.m ...
For years, the Confederate flag has served as a powerful symbol, one that's meant wildly different things to different folks. For some, it harks back to the old South, for others it's a reminder ...
The House follows July 1. The Confederate flag is lowered from the Statehouse dome. Moments later, Civil War re-enactors raise a smaller, square version of the flag nearby.
Nikki Haley let the Confederate flag fly until a massacre forced her hand. She told Confederate groups that flag was about ‘heritage,’ and her campaign said efforts to remove it from the State ...
House Majority Whip James E. Clyburn, a Democrat from South Carolina, said the message the people wielding the Confederate flag in the Capitol were trying to send was unequivocal.