Posted on 06/17/2021 9:20:16 AM PDT by Red Badger
KEY POINTS President Joe Biden is set to sign a bill establishing Juneteenth, the date marking the end of slavery in the United States, as a federal holiday.
Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are slated to deliver remarks in the East Room, according to the White House.
Juneteenth National Independence Day will become the 12th legal public holiday, and the first new one since Martin Luther King Jr. Day was signed into law in 1983 by then-President Ronald Reagan.
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President Joe Biden is set to sign on Thursday a bill establishing Juneteenth, the date marking the end of slavery in the United States, as a federal holiday.
The 3:30 p.m. ET signing event at the White House comes two days before Juneteenth itself, which falls on June 19 each year. Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are scheduled to deliver remarks in the East Room, according to the White House.
Juneteenth National Independence Day will become the 12th legal public holiday and the first new one created since Martin Luther King Jr. Day was signed into law in 1983 by then-President Ronald Reagan.
Juneteenth marks the date that the last enslaved African Americans were granted their freedom. On that day in 1865, Union soldiers led by Gen. Gordon Granger arrived in the coastal city of Galveston, Texas, to deliver General Order No. 3, officially ending slavery in the state.
The final act of liberation came months after the Confederate army’s surrender ended the Civil War, and more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
Lincoln was assassinated on April 15, 1865, two months before his proclamation made it to Texas.
The holiday legislation passed this week with overwhelming support in both chambers of Congress. The Senate approved the bill unanimously Tuesday night, and the House passed it in a 415-14 vote. The only votes against the bill came from Republicans.
On the House floor before the vote, some GOP lawmakers complained about the name of the holiday, and others expressed concern about the cost of giving the federal workforce another day off. Some also railed against Democrats for pushing the bill to a vote without first allowing committees to examine the legislation and offer amendments.
Still, most House Republicans, even those who objected to parts of the bill, ended up voting for it.
The Juneteenth legislation was sponsored in the Senate by Edward Markey, D-Mass. The House version, sponsored by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, was co-sponsored by 166 lawmakers.
The 14 no votes 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.
All because Trump had a rally on that date, and somebody noticed it. Then all these people who never even heard of Juneteenth before called Trump racist because of it.
I assume this won’t take effect until next year.
Conservative Republicans: Trying to get blacks off the Democrat plantation since 1861.
A day to commemorate the Republicans defeating the Democrats.
starting this monday? goodie
Let’s pick off the scab of slavery every year from now on. It does not serve the democrats for any healing to occur.
Is Juneteenth before or after eleventeen or tenteen what will they think of next.
“There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.”
― Booker T. Washington
If we pander enough to the black community, maybe they will like us White folks.
Emancipation Proclamation should be a federal holiday on September 22 because Abraham Lincoln freed all slaves. Juneteenth is a specific holiday in Texas that celebrates an event that happened locally.
If this makes sense.
Celebrating Juneteenth this year?
Don’t forget to thank a Republican (preferably a Conservative Republican.)
Yay! More days off for worthless gov workers.
given the LEFT’s complete abandonment of MLK, this holiday will soon be just a day off
Federal Workers do not need another day off.
We need to embrace this and turn it into a learning moment. Like you said... The day Republicans freed the last of democrats slaves.
Au Contraire! Let’s pay them to STAY HOME!..................
I assume this won’t take effect until next year.
What will be considered the standard for celebrating it? Fireworks? Fried Chicken?
STUPID illiterate name for a holiday, that doesn’t even mark when something actually happened. It’s a local thing just like the stupid Cinco deMayo. Exploded into a huge National thing in just a couple years.
And al” to celebrate RIOTERS.
Sick of this PC Shiite.
Two black federal holidays. Zero for other races.
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