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Effort to outlaw flag burning fails in Senate Tue Jun 27, 2006 6:51pm ET8 By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Tuesday defeated by one vote an effort to change the Constitution to let Congress outlaw flag burning, rejecting a politically charged issue backed by conservatives for the second time in a month. The 66 to 34 vote fell just short of the two-thirds needed to pass a constitutional amendment and send it on to the states for ratification. The House approved the amendment last year. The Senate earlier this month voted down a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage. Backers, including all but three Republicans, said a constitutional amendment was the only way to overturn a 5-4 Supreme Court ruling in 1989 that struck down flag-protection laws in 48 states and the District of Columbia. Democrats, even those who supported the flag-burning amendment, said Republicans were pandering to conservative voters ahead of November's elections when they should have been tackling more substantive problems. http://today.reuters.com/news/newsA...&archived=False

Maybe now congress can move onto some real issues

Pop quiz:

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"Countless men and women have died defending that flag," said Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., closing two days of debate. "It is but a small humble act for us to defend it." "Our country's unique because our dissidents have a voice," said Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii. "While I take offense at disrespect to the flag," he said, "I nonetheless believe it is my continued duty as a veteran, as an American citizen, and as a United States senator to defend the constitutional right of protesters to use the flag in nonviolent speech."

Which Senator above lost an arm in military service to this country, and received the Medal of Honor?

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