GOP Tries To Use Zika Bill To Undo Cemetery Confederate Flag Ban

[deminks]

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/confederate-flag-zika-funding?utm_content=bufferdb11f&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

House Republican lawmakers sought to reverse previously passed legislation restricting the display of the Confederate flag in federal cemeteries by slipping a provision stripping the legislation into a larger appropriations bill that included Zika funding. The House bill passed last week on largely partisan lines, but was blocked in the Senate Tuesday by a Democratic filibuster.

The Confederate flag language was just one of a number controversial provisions included in the bill, which also included an amendment cutting Planned Parenthood funding and other swipes at the Obama administration's public health initiatives.

Republican lawmakers are warning that the American public will now blame Democrats if Zika becomes a full-blown health crisis. But Democratic leaders suggested that filibustering Tuesday's bill was an easy call -- pointing to provisions like the Confederate flag reversal.

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Clean bills - there should be a law.

[tonyt53]

1. As has been said, that bill was full of surprises and poison. The GOP could care less about Zika

[3catwoman3]

2. ALL bills should be clean bills.

ALL of them. The amendment/ slipping in a provision BS is ridiculous.

The confederate flag has jack$h!t to do with Zika virus, and they should be ashamed to even try this.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

3. GOP: "Let's politicize an epidemic."

Imagine what they could have done with the Black Plague.