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SCHAEFFER: Civil War Battlefields: The Left’s Next Target In The War On History

The battlefields, where the South's twisted notions went to die, should not be the place to make symbolic rejections.

Brad Schaeffer
SCHAEFFER: Civil War Battlefields: The Left’s Next Target In The War On History
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A bill sponsored by Rep. Nita Lowey (D-NY) has passed the House and is currently in the Senate for committee review and an eventual vote. H.R. 7608 is entitled the “State, Foreign Operations, Agriculture, Rural Development, Interior, Environment, Military Construction, and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Act.”

The bill provides fiscal year 2021 appropriations for the Department of State, Department of Agriculture, the EPA, various foreign relations initiatives, and related programs. It is the “related programs” that has those who care about American history concerned. If one peruses the 772-page bill, they will find buried way down in the middle somewhere Sec. 442. It reads as follows:

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