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  COMMEMORATING JUNE 19, 2025, AS JUNETEENTH NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE DAY

  Mrs. BLACKBURN. I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on the 
Judiciary be discharged from further consideration and the Senate now 
proceed to S. Res. 290.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the resolution by title.
  The bill clerk read as follows:

       A resolution (S. Res. 290) commemorating June 19, 2025, as 
     ``Juneteenth National Independence Day'' in recognition of 
     June 19, 1865, the date on which news of the end of slavery 
     reached the slaves in the Southwestern States.

  There being no objection, the committee was discharged, and the 
Senate proceeded to consider the resolution.
  Mrs. BLACKBURN. I ask unanimous consent that the resolution be agreed 
to, the preamble be agreed to, and that the motions to reconsider be 
made and laid upon the table.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The resolution (S. Res. 290) was agreed to.
  The preamble was agreed to.
  (The resolution, with its preamble, is printed in the Record of June 
18, 2025, under ``Submitted Resolutions.'')

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