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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20210617:08:02:00

that happened late yesterday. tonight, there s been a big but not unanimous vote in the house. but it passed easily. in the end, it was sheila jackson lee who was able to call it with just palpable joy as she did so. on this vote, the yeas are 415 and the nays are 14. the bill is passed! [ cheers and applause ] texas congresswoman sheila jackson lee announcing the passage tonight in the house of legislation to make juneteenth a federal holiday. congresswoman lee sponsored the legislation to make juneteenth a federal holiday, and also to create what they call a national emancipation trail to trace the news of the emancipation proclamation, the news of the

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20210617:23:53:00

on this vote, the yays are 415 and the neys are 14. the bill is passed. after a hard fought effort congresswoman sheila jackson lee presidedo a vote in the house last night that was years in the making. to designate juneteenth a federal holiday. it defensemen rates the day in 1856 that all black americans in every corn of the station were officially free from slavery. while the bill passed in the house there were still 14 republicans who didn t think that was worthy. president biden signed the legislation. here s the president.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20210617:23:27:00

did was we opened the door. we opened the door for discussion to bring us to a final conclusion in the george floyd justice and policing bill and we opened the door on racial equity and social equity. and you have some that we won t get on these other bills like fixing the rights, but what they expected was what they did not get and that 415s is largest vote we ve seen in a good number of months or years, if you will. what we did is we showed the american people that we could be unified as members of the house and senate and we gave them a holiday where they can be unified celebrating freedom. biden said the fight now means protecting the right to vote. democrats are pushing rights. joe manchin oppose the current bill. he has unveiled a compromise

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20210617:23:26:00

this journey to get this national holiday. so i mentioned, of course, the unanimity in the senate and not in the house and i just quoted from two of your [ no oaudio ] based on the color of one s skin. what do you say to that? what i say is that small, minute opinion was just that. it was isolated. it was small. i m sure they expected to have a much larger presence of no votes. i made sure that republicans knew that they were as much a part of the freedom of slaves as anyone else. we had 415 votes. so those were minority opinions inside of minority opinions. sad that they had to interpret it that way. it is even more sad that they can t see unity and grab hold of it when it smacks them in the face. we did a great thing and what we

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