Posted on 07/01/2020 11:50:59 AM PDT by rintintin
Republican senators are debating whether Juneteenth, a day that commemorates the end of slavery in the United States, should replace Columbus Day on the federal government's list of official holidays.
A bipartisan bill sponsored by Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) to make Juneteenth a federal holiday is being held up by an internal Senate GOP squabble.
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), an outspoken budget hawk, doesn't want to add another paid holiday to the calendar.
Johnson says if Juneteenth is made a federal holiday, another paid federal holiday should come off the schedule. He's proposing scrapping Columbus Day but is open to eliminating another holiday instead.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
That was their first choice to drop in favor of Juneteenth, but the Chamber of Commerce intervened.
Why’s it fair to give Blacks two federal holidays.
How about renaming Martin Luther King day to Martin Luther King / Junteenth day?
Start a street riot and maybe the GOP will listen to you. Otherwise be quiet and pay your taxes and vote for Republicans like a good sheeple
All politicians will allow the destruction of Christians as the Christmas Holiday is ended. Then it will be follow by elimination of Hanukkah and slaughter once against of the Jews. Best have plan B if the Rapture is late ..... is alway prudent to have a plan B, C, D, E etc.
This kind of issue is about the limit of their intellectual capability.
No more incapable or moronic human ever created than a U.S. senator.
Only a minority of gop are outspoken in support of President Trump.
They could talk to the pope and other Christian leaders about changing the date of Christmas to June, and combine it with Juneteenth.
There shouldn’t be days named after people, period.
Makes more sense to have a holiday celebrating the end of slavery.
How about getting rid of most of the holidays and let people celebrate what they want when they want.
As a semi-retired curmudgeon it annoys me that regular people have so many days off to celebrate meaningless holidays.
Feds don’t work anyway. Give them another federal holiday.
They should be debating a federal school choice program! Put the dems action whwre their fat mouths are! Put another bill forth making it illegal for white doctors to abort black babies.
The word of the day..pander..because that is what this is..straight up pandering. Tucker is right, there are some in the GOP who are so obsessed with kissing commie behind they will do ANYTHING to get it
And this is why the left is winning. The Recucklicans are useless.
The GOP is finished.
Dont give them any ideas, next we will be told that Santa is a racist we need to cancel Christmas
It’s on the Bubble.
It will be renamed as the Nondenominational Kwanzaa Winter Shopping Holiday.
Of course Santa is a racist. He has oppressed children of color for thousands of years.
John Cornyn is a useless piece of human waste. I hope someone in Texas replaces this POS.
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