“Again, House Republicans stood on the wrong side of history by voting to protect a symbol of hate and discrimination,” said Jermaine House of the DCCC “By voting to allow for military personnel to be trained under the Confederate Flag, House Republicans proved how perfectly aligned they are with their presumptive nominee Donald Trump’s discriminatory and racially insensitive agenda.”
House rejects effort to bar Confederate flag from the Citadel
By Cristina Marcos
May 18, 2016
[…]Debate over flying the Confederate flag has returned to the House floor nearly a year after a racially motivated shooting in Charleston, S.C. House Democrats late Wednesday night used a procedural motion for the annual defense policy bill to attempt to add an amendment that would target the display of the Confederate flag at the Citadel military college in Charleston. Their measure, known as a motion to recommit, would also strip a Republican-authored provision in the defense authorization bill that Democrats warned would allow discrimination against the LGBT community. It failed along party lines by a vote of 181-243.
[…]”This objectionable banner, which has never been the official flag of the Confederacy, is a symbol of hate, racial oppression, resistance to the rule of law and white supremacy,” Clyburn said.
[…]”Whatever their empty talk about being shocked by Donald Trump’s hateful rhetoric, House Republicans’ votes utterly expose the reality of their own discriminatory agenda,” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said in a statement.