{"id":567885,"date":"2021-06-18T13:22:02","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T17:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=567885"},"modified":"2021-06-18T13:22:05","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T17:22:05","slug":"juneteenth-becomes-federal-holiday-thanks-to-historic-republican-backed-legislation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/juneteenth-becomes-federal-holiday-thanks-to-historic-republican-backed-legislation\/","title":{"rendered":"Juneteenth Becomes Federal Holiday Thanks to Historic Republican-Backed Legislation"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjuneteenth-becomes-federal-holiday-thanks-to-historic-republican-backed-legislation%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=567885&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"30.666666666667\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/\">Politics<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">&#8216;This bill probably wouldn&#8217;t have happened if it had not been for the persistent support of Texas Sen. John Cornyn&#8217;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"491\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1232844075-736x491-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1232844075-e1624032350725.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1232844075-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1232844075-768x512.jpg 768w\" data-sizes=\"auto\"  style=\"display:none\"><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tTexas Sen. John Cornyn (R.) \/ Getty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/andrew-stiles\/\" title=\"Posts by Andrew Stiles\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Andrew Stiles<\/a> \u2022 June 18, 2021 1:10 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"83.45\">\n<p>Juneteenth Independence Day, commemorating the end of slavery in the United States and the triumph of Republican president Abraham Lincoln, is now a federal holiday thanks to GOP-backed legislation.<\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden signed the Republican-backed bill into law on Thursday, creating the first new federal holiday since 1983, when GOP president Ronald Reagan established Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s finally time to recognize Juneteenth as a national holiday,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnCornyn\/status\/1405631277722652676\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a>\u00a0Sen. John Cornyn (R., Texas), who introduced the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act in the Senate, where it was unanimously approved, and worked with Democrats to secure its passage in the House.<\/p>\n<p>Liberal commentator Juan Williams <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/juneteenth-new-holiday-racial-unity-approval-juan-williams\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">praised<\/a> Cornyn for &#8220;leading the way.&#8221; The Republican &#8220;is sensitive to the racial divide and often looks for healing,&#8221; Williams wrote approvingly.<\/p>\n<p>The editors of the <em>Beaumont Enterprise<\/em> went even further. &#8220;This bill probably wouldn&#8217;t have happened if it had [not] been for the persistent support of Texas Sen. John Cornyn,&#8221; they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaumontenterprise.com\/opinions\/editorials\/article\/ENTERPRISE-EDITORIAL-New-Juneteenth-bill-is-a-16256112.php?utm_campaign=CMS%20Sharing%20Tools%20(Premium)&#038;utm_source=t.co&#038;utm_medium=referral\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a>. &#8220;He has been pushing it in Washington for more than a year, first proposing it in the national trauma after the police killing of George Floyd.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cornyn wasn&#8217;t the only Republican who made it happen. Nearly 20 GOP senators signed on as cosponsors, including Richard Burr (N.C.), Joni Ernst (Iowa), Marco Rubio (Fla.), Josh Hawley (Mo.), Mike Crapo (Idaho), Deb Fischer (Neb.), James Lankford (Okla.), Bill Cassidy (La.), Jim Risch (Idaho), Kevin Cramer (N.D.), Todd Young (Ind.), Cindy Hyde-Smith (Miss.), Susan Collins (Maine), Rob Portman (Ohio), Tim Scott (S.C.), John Hoeven (N.D.), and Shelly Moore Capito (W. Va.).<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politics &#8216;This bill probably wouldn&#8217;t have happened if it had not been for the persistent support of Texas Sen. John Cornyn&#8217;  Texas Sen. 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