memeorandum: ‘New day in South Carolina’: House votes to take down Confederate flag (Cynthia Roldan/Post and Courier)

3:15 PM ET, July 9, 2015

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Cristina Marcos / The Hill:

House cancels vote amid fight over Confederate flag — House GOP leaders abruptly canceled a vote Thursday on a spending bill for the Interior Department amid an intraparty split over the display of the Confederate flag. — The bill was pulled after the House moved to vote on an amendment …

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Cynthia Roldan / Post and Courier:

‘New day in South Carolina’: House votes to take down Confederate flag — Rep. Wendell Gilliard and other representatives of the Lowcountry gather to remember the victims of the Emanuel AME Church shootings before the House voted early Thursday morning to bring down the Confederate flag from the Statehouse grounds.

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Michael E. Miller / Washington Post:
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South Carolina House votes to remove Confederate flag from statehouse grounds

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