WASHINGTON, June 18 -- Sen. John Cornyn issued the following news release:
U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX), who successfully led the effort (https://www.cornyn.senate.gov/news/video-cornyn-finally-juneteenth-is-a-national-holiday/) in Congress to make Juneteenth a federal holiday, today led 21 of his colleagues in introducing a Senate resolution honoring Juneteenth National Independence Day. Text is below, and you can view the full resolution here (https://www.cornyn.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/STR26056.pdf).
"Whereas news of the end of slavery did not reach the frontier areas of the United States, in particular the State of Texas and the other Southwestern States, until months after the conclusion of the Civil War, more than 2 ...