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On Tuesday, January 11, 2021, business under the golden dome in Trenton went on like any other day.  On this day, a bill was on the Senate floor for a vote. The bill in question was simple: A condemnation of the President and the rioters who stormed the capitol, looted the people’s house and left Capitol Police Officer Sicknick bludgeoned to death. A law enforcement officer lay dead on the capitol while the hordes of criminals spilled into the building, ransacking our Capitol building and our democracy.

The Assembly this afternoon passed a bill designating the third Friday in June in each year as Juneteenth Day — that celebrates the emancipation of remaining enslaved African-Americans — and establishes it as a State holiday.  The vote tally was 62-0-12.  Among those abstaining was our very own LD 24 Assemblyman Hal Wirths.