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House Votes to Ban Confederate Flags at Vets Cemeteries

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House approves legislation, 265 to 159.

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The U.S. House of Representatives voted Thursday to ban Confederate flags from flying on flagpoles at federal Veterans Affairs cemeteries. The vote, 265 to 159, comes almost a year after the South Carolina state legislature removed Confederate flags from its capitol building following a mass shooting at an African-American church in Charleston.

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