house in 2020 with president trump and black leaders and he supported us fully and having juneteenth being a holiday. i ve been working at priests for life, a pastor yeah associate for many years that was my first initiative to get juneteenth for not only african americans but for the babies. and so that has been an initiative. i m very happy that it s been signed. been working on it for a very, very long time. i see that president biden did sign it. i m glad he signed it. we ve been working on it a long time, even with president trump. i m so very happy to see it pass. you know what happens? a new president comes in. they get to take credit. not only for what they re doing but the good things that the president before them did like the vaccine with president trump. so i m excited to see the bill signed. very excited. charles: alveda, to your point, it passed 415 to 14 in
- [announcer] start your celebration at snhu.edu next hour at the white house, president biden is expected to sign the juneteenth national independence day act into law. the house voted 415 to 14 yesterday to send the bill to the president s desk. 14 republicans voted against it. now, it will designate juneteenth as a federal holiday, the first new federal holiday since martin luther king jr. day was established back in 1983. juneteenth is a day meant to commemorate the end of slavery in the united states. on june 19th, 1865, well after slaves were freed by the emancipation proclamation, union soldiers delivered the news of freedom to the last remaining enslaved people in galveston, texas. this afternoon there is word of a new proposal for a voting
commemorating the end of slavery in the u.s. set to become the first new national holiday in decades. the bill sailing through congress, sailing through, now heading to president biden s desk for his signature. cnn s ryan nobles has more from capitol hill. reporter: there will be a new federal holiday after the house of representatives passed legislation to make june 19th the day recognized as the end of slavery in the united states a federal holiday, the senate passing the bill earlier this week after wisconsin senator ron johnson lifted his block of the bill. it was passed unanimously through the senate but in the house it did meet a bit of opposition. it passed 415-14, there were 14 republicans that voted against it, all white men. i talked to alexandria ocasio-cortez of new york after the vote and she said that that 14, those 14 votes, show that there is still a lot of work to do in the united states as it relates to racism and its part
on this vote, the yeas are 415 and the nays are 14. the bill is passed. all right. june 19th or juneteenth, the bill that commemorates the end of slavery in the united states is now a national holiday. the voet house voted to pass the juneteenth holiday. 14 voted against it. president biden is scheduled to sign this bill into law this afternoon making this saturday the first juneteenth national holiday. also on capitol hill, senate minority leader mitch mcconnell said he would block a supreme court nominee picked by president biden in 2024 is the gop wins back the senate. here is how biden responded when asked about the comment
in a rare sight of bipartisanship last night the house voted overwhelmingly in support of the juneteenth bill. the president will sign it into law this afternoon just days ahead of june 19. when more than 250,000 black slaves in texas were informed had been freed by the emancipation proclamation. speaker pelosi and the members of the black caucus celebrate the black caucus bill this morning. sheila jackson lee the sponsor of the legislation in the house. congresswoman, you gambled this overwhelmingly partisan vote in the house last night. the vote was 415 to 14. talk a little bit about the significance for you and your home state of texas. and of course, for our nation, who, this is a remarkable day in our history that would only be formally acknowledged starting this weekend. thank you for having me this afternoon. you cannot imagine the moment that that gavel came down,