GOP Senator to Advance Bill Designating Juneteenth a Federal Holiday
John Cornyn
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Texas Republican Senator John Cornyn said he plans to introduce legislation to make Juneteenth, first celebrated in his home state to commemorate the day slaves there learned of Emancipation, as a federal holiday.
Marked annually on June 19, the day is “an opportunity to reflect on our history, the mistakes we have made, but yet how far we’ve come in the fight for equality, and a reminder of just how far we still have to go,” Cornyn said on the Senate floor on Thursday.