Word: flagging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WASHINGTON--A House committee yesterday approved a flag protection bill that was pushed by Democrats but dismissed by Republicans as useless for overcoming the Supreme Court ruling permitting flag burning...
...Democratic leader said he and others in his party would "go to the wall" to block a constitutional amendment against flag desecration, which the Republicans and President Bush say is necessary...
...House Judiciary Committee, in a quarrelsome session, voted 28-6 for a statute that says, "Whoever knowingly mutilates, defaces, burns or tramples upon any flag of the United States shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both...
...Republicans voting supported the bill--as a symbolic gesture for the flag, one said. But the Republican leadership blocked the Democrats' plan to bring the bill before the full House next week...
House Republican Leader Bob Michel of Illinois told reporters that White House Chief of Staff John Sununu urged the GOP leadership this week to peak out more on the flag because it was a "wedge issues"--one that breaks the Democrats apart...