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From: bentway	3/6/2015 7:56:20 AM
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GOP leaders to skip Selma event ‘They’ve lost an opportunity to show the American people that they care,’ one black lawmaker says. By Anna Palmer and Lauren French 3/5/15 5:20 PM EST Updated 3/5/15 7:28 PM EST Scores of U.S. lawmakers are converging on tiny Selma, Alabama, for a large commemoration of a civil rights anniversary. But their ranks don’t include a single member of House Republican leadership — a point that isn’t lost on congressional black leaders. None of the top leaders — House Speaker John Boehner, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy or Majority Whip Steve Scalise, who was once thought likely to attend to atone for reports that he once spoke before a white supremacist group — will be in Selma for the three-day event that commemorates the 1965 march and the violence that protesters faced at the hands of white police officers. A number of rank-and-file Republicans have been aggressively lobbying their colleagues to attend, and several black lawmakers concurred. Read more: politico.com

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