Congressional leaders ordered the flags at the U.S. Capitol lowered to half-staff Tuesday morning to honor the five victims of last week's shooting rampage in Chattanooga, Tenn. -- but no such order came from President Obama, as the White House flag continued to fly at full staff.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker John Boehner said in a statement that as Congress returned to session on Tuesday, the flags were lowered for the Navy sailor and four Marines killed.

"Last week, five brave service members were murdered in a terror attack in Chattanoog

The growing debate in Congress over the Confederate flag put a second government spending bill in jeopardy Friday, as Republican congressional leaders grappled with the prospect of Democrats again forcing the issue on the floor of the House.

A financial-services spending bill, generally expected to come to the House floor next week, now seems unlikely to advance that quickly, if at all, as GOP leaders seek to resolve the Confederate flag dilemma, according to Hous

The flag will be brought down from a 30-foot pole on Friday. The historic flag will then be moved to the South Carolina Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum.

South Carolina will pull the Confederate battle flag down from a Statehouse memorial Friday, but the national debate over the flag showed no sign of waning as Democrats in Washington, sensing momentum, moved to furl state flags at the Capitol that still include Confederate symbols.

The last Republican governor who took on the Confederate flag in South Carolina lost his job. Nikki Haley may get a promotion.

Preparing to close a chapter on a symbol of the Deep South and its history of resistance and racial animus, South Carolina officials gathered near the Confederate battle flag as it waved outside the State House for the last time Friday, just minutes before it was scheduled to be lowered from where it has flown for more than 50 years.

The South Carolina House has approved a bill to remove the Confederate flag from the Statehouse grounds and the flag could be removed within days.

The Confederate battle flag that has flown at the South Carolina State House for more than 50 years will soon be gone after lawmakers capped a tension-filled session early on Thursday and voted to remove it from the grounds of the State Capitol.

Lawmakers in the states House of Representatives backed a bill early today that would put the flag in a relic room. The vote was 94-20. Gov. Nikki Haley is expected to sign the measure into law.

Ahead of the South Carolina House of Representatives voting in favor of having the Confederate flag removed from Capitol grounds, Rep. Jenny Horne delivered a blistering response to one of Confederate flag supporters main arguments - that being it's heritage.