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President Biden signed bill making Juneteenth a Federal Holiday!!
President Biden signed a bill to establish Juneteenth as a federal holidaycommemorating the end of slavery in the United States.
Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, when Union Major General Gordon Granger announced the end of slavery in Galveston, Texas, in accordance with President Abraham Lincoln's 1863 Emancipation Proclamation.
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Re: President Biden signed bill making Juneteenth a Federal Holiday!!
I’d only recently learned of this tragic event. What a horrible and shameful part of American history.
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Re: President Biden signed bill making Juneteenth a Federal Holiday!!
This really does put the institution of slavery on the map. 14 Republicans rejected this....idiots.The 14 no votes were all from Republican members of Congress. They were:
- Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Ala.
- Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz.
- Rep. Scott DesJarlais, R-Tenn.
- Rep. Tom Tiffany, R-Wis.
- Rep. Doug LaMalfa, R-Calif.
- Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Ala.
- Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C.
- Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas
- Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz.
- Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Calif.
- Rep. Matt Rosendale, R-Mont.
- Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-Texas
- Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky.
- Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga.
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