Today's letters: Readers comment on the Juneteenth vote, the GOP and a recent editorial
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More bipartisan votes
Congress passed the bill making Juneteenth a federal holiday on a nearly unanimous bipartisan vote (all U.S. senators and all but 14 Republican members of the House of Representatives). The bill commemorates the end of the Civil War’s root cause: slavery in the confederate states.
How did such a bipartisan vote happen, and can it happen again? There are important issues facing our country, and Congress was elected to address them. We need agreement on rebuilding infrastructure, addressing climate change, gun control and, most important, voter rights.