Miller delays vote on removing Miss. flag from House
Melissa Nann Burke, The Detroit News
12:08 a.m. EDT July 27, 2015
Washington — U.S. Rep. Candice Miller, chairwoman of the House Administration panel, has told committee Democrats that she has put on hold the proposal to remove the Mississippi state flag from the House and House office buildings — for now.
Miller, a Republican from Harrison Township, wants first to hear from Mississippi colleagues in Congress and in the state Legislature, which doesn’t reconvene until January ...
The proposal before Miller’s committee is sponsored by Rep. Bennie G. Thompson, D-Mississippi, who has offered a resolution to remove Mississippi’s and any other state flag containing the Confederate battle flag from the House side of the Capitol and from House office buildings. The flags would be donated to the Library of Congress.
“It is uncontroverted fact that symbols of the Confederacy offend and insult many members of the general public who use the hallways of Congress each day,” Thompson’s resolution reads ...
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Georgia seems to be suffering from a serious mood-swing problem, for example
Mississippi managed to survive from 1906 until 2001 without any official flag, at which point they suddenly re-adopted the flag repealed in 1906
