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House passes bill to make Juneteenth a national holiday and sends it to Biden s desk to be signed into law insider@insider.com (Eliza Relman,Oma Seddiq,Charles Davis) © Photo by Dylan Buell/Getty Images for VIBE A 2019 Juneteenth parade in Milwaukee. Photo by Dylan Buell/Getty Images for VIBE
The House on Wednesday passed a bill to make Juneteenth a national holiday.
June 19 marks the day people who were enslaved in the US were emancipated.
The Senate passed the bill on Tuesday, and it now heads over to Biden s desk for his signature.
The bill passed by a 415-14 vote, with all votes against it coming from Republicans.
The bill passed by a 415-14 vote, with all votes against it coming from Republicans. It has been a long journey, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, a Democrat from Houston and author of the bill, said on the floor. This bill and this day is about freedom.
The bill passed the Senate 24 hours earlier, winning unanimous support on Tuesday. President Joe Biden is expected to sign it into law ahead of this weekend s annual celebration.
Sen. Ron Johnson, a Wisconsin Republican, had been vocally opposed to the legislation, saying that it was too costly to give federal employees another day off work. But he ended his blockade of the bill on Tuesday, which allowed the Senate to move forward.
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