Calvert Amendment News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

South carolina saying he didn't want confederate imagery in cemeteries. i'm curious your sense of what happened this week. do you see change taking place in the republican party, did you see anything of significance happening in the debate? >> representative huffman and i introduced three amendments that would have prohibited the use of federal funds in connection with the purchase sale or display of the confederate flag on national park service land. those amendments initially were accepted without opposition on voice vote but then in a cunning move less than 24 hours later it seems like the ...

It up. >> it strangely emerged this calvert amendment was suddenly there. do you sense there was any connection to what was happening in south carolina? >> the chair of the house appropriations committee kit indicated, this was done in the cop text of the funding bill for the department of interior within which the national park service is a resident agency and the republican chair, hall rogers of the appropriations committee said that he expected they would lose upwards of 100 votes if the confederate flag prohibitions remained in the interior appropriation bill. that speaks loudly to the con...