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.
More sniveling wormy behavior from pathetic republicans in their idiotic attempt to get the black vote by forcing the nation to recognize a holiday that only makes sense in Texas. It won’t work because 90% of black Americans have never heard of this and will forget about by Time the mid terms roll around .
Kinda like Kwanzee
Now America will be great!
No?
Being only a few weeks removed from July 4th, I expect now them to start proposing to eliminate July 4th as a holiday.
Independence is anathema to control.
To quote a former black coworker, "Don't ever let em ketch ya limpin".
Disgusting.
LOL look at their wording: “Juneteenth is the date…”
It is NOT a date! It’s an illiterate idiotic conglomeration of words.
Technically by the English language, “June Teenth” should be June 10. And if it’s just whatever words have “teen” in them, then it can be anything from June 13 to June 19.
“ Juneteenth marks the date that the last enslaved African Americans were granted their freedom”
The article cannot even get the facts straight. Slavery was still legal in certain non-rebellious states after June 18, 1865. Slavery did not become illegal in all the United States until December 1865 with the passage of the 13th Amendment. Any holiday celebrating the end of slavery should have been in December.
As far as I’m concerned we don’t need any Federal Holidays. If you want Christmas off, take a vacation day. Lots of people work on Christmas.
History embellished!
So if the company I work for doesn’t close on this new federal holiday, does that mean I work for a racist company?
Inquiring minds....
Just like the Moslems, and the commies, and everyone who is brutal….
We don’t need another secular “holiday”!! PHOOEY!!!!
Just whatever words have “teen” in them.
You mean like umpteen?.
You are correct in that it takes effect tomorrow — already seen government notices explaining time off and how to update time cards.
Juneteenth celebrations in the DC area always end in gunfire, and not the celebratory kind.
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
― George Orwell, 1984
The ORIGINAL purpose of declared gov holidays was because TOO MANY PEOPLE TOOK OFF. It was inefficient to try to operate.
It was a good reason. But now our stupid nominal groups are offended because their day isn’t taken off for school or court or whatever. Like Moslems have gotten days EVER SINCE 9/11!!!!
REcall the recent upset in NJ over taking holidays off calendar? I actually don’t have a real problem with that. Except maybe they keep us in the dark about WHY it’s a day off…like sneaking in some f a g holiday or stupid Earth Day.
All we need now is a new police shooting of a black criminal and we’ll be all set for national riots this weekend!
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