It was President Grant who made Christmas a federal holiday.
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Martin Luther King Jr. during his federal holiday next week.
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It's a federal holiday, so maybe you're not at work.
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A history of our weirdest federal holiday: Presidents Day: http://t.
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President Jimmy Carter expressed support for the federal holiday in 1979.
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Plus the next day is a federal holiday, with most schools closed.
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U.S. markets will close on Monday for Memorial Day, a federal holiday.
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As a federal holiday, the celebration of Columbus Day is quite inconsistent.
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The changes were adopted without advance notice and on a federal holiday.
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That momentum continued the day after Christmas, which was a federal holiday.
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Columbus Day, which remains a federal holiday, serves to honor Christopher Columbus.
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Thus, we honor Columbus by monuments, place names, and a federal holiday.
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In the past, presidents have honored the federal holiday with service activities.
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Since it's a federal holiday, many workers and students have the day off.
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But states and local governments can choose not to observe a federal holiday.
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CDT (2000 GMT), a day later than normal due to Monday's federal holiday.
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The industry's momentum continued into Monday, which was a federal holiday, Johnson said.
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Let's make Election Day a federal holiday (or at least a company holiday).
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Similarly, some say voting day — whenever it falls — should be a federal holiday.
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EST on Thursday, both delayed a day because of the federal holiday on Monday.
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EST (2200 GMT), following the federal holiday on Monday because of the Christmas holiday.
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EST (1600 GMT), following the federal holiday on Monday because of the Christmas holiday.
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Obama is taking advantage of beautiful fall weather on Columbus Day, a federal holiday.
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McMichen insisted that the committee placement was unrelated to the federal holiday honoring King.
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Just 15 percent of private business close, the smallest proportion for any federal holiday.
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Today is Columbus Day, which was declared a federal holiday by F.D.R. in 1934.
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Columbus Day, the second Monday of October, has been a federal holiday since 1934.
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Today is Columbus Day, a federal holiday to honor the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus.
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The president had no public events on his schedule for Monday, a federal holiday.
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It also pledges to get rid of gerrymandering and make Election Day a federal holiday.
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Networks generally don't save their most promising shows for the night before a federal holiday.
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Mr. McConnell threw cold water on the proposal to make Election Day a federal holiday.
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In 1885, the US made February 22 a federal holiday and called it Washington's Birthday.
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The act moved every federal holiday to Mondays to give Americans a three-day weekend.
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The actual federal holiday is called "Washington's Birthday," after the nation's first president, George Washington.
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Every federal holiday, except for the Fourth of July and Thanksgiving, would fall on a Monday.
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It wasn't until 1885, though, that February 22 became designated a federal holiday to honor Washington.
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Though his birthday is a federal holiday, not all states celebrate it on the same day.
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Today is Martin Luther King's Birthday, the federal holiday that honors the assassinated civil rights leader.
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And in a gift to government workers, Trump on Tuesday declared Christmas Eve a federal holiday.
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Voting rights activists argue that making Election Day a federal holiday would promote more civic participation.
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TV's Joe Concha, when asked if Election Day in the U.S. would ever become a federal holiday.
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A different provision would make Election Day a federal holiday in a bid to boost voter turnout.
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The federal holiday is known as "Discoverers' Day" in Hawaii and "Native Americans' Day" in South Dakota.
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A similar incident in San Francisco took place over the weekend in protest of the federal holiday.
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Despite the financial gains made from it, however, Lunar New Year is not yet a federal holiday.
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Monday is a federal holiday and the president does not have any public events on his schedule.
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It was a federal holiday yesterday, but the government shutdown is still ongoing and into Day 28500.
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MONDAY • Columbus/Indigenous Peoples' Day: It's a federal holiday, so post offices and other government offices are closed.
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Memorial Day began informally after the Civil War but was not formalized as a federal holiday until 1971.
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A federal holiday on Monday has delayed the release of the weekly U.S. inventory data by a day.
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The way it was done over a federal holiday, late at night, and in a secret conference vote.
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TV and HarrisX polling company found that a majority of respondents favor making Election Day a federal holiday.
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After MLK Day became a federal holiday, Virginia combined all three birthdays to create Lee-Jackson-King Day.
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But Election Day may not become a federal holiday anytime soon -- it's drawn deep division along party lines.
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Most of the United States knows the second Monday of October, a federal holiday since 1934, as Columbus Day.
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The third Monday in January was only designated a federal holiday to honor Martin Luther King Jr., born Jan.
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That said, it's not known if a federal holiday (or even a shift to weekend voting) would impact turnout.
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As a federal holiday, it also means that most of us get a much-needed Monday off of work.
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The move arrives several weeks after the New Mexico state Senate voted to approve legislation abolishing the federal holiday.
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Monday is the federal holiday celebrating King, who was shot dead by an assassin in 1968 at age 39.
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Yang's policy page is littered with niche proposals, from eliminating the penny to making Election Day a federal holiday.
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Monday is the federal holiday celebrating King, who was shot dead by an assassin in 103 at age 39.
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Just last Christmas, a VA clinic in Virginia attempted to shut down its employees' expressions celebrating the federal holiday.
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In 1983, McCain voted against legislation to make King's birthday a federal holiday -- a position he would later regret.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Washington on Monday, the federal holiday that honors the slain civil rights leader.
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During what decade (for example, 1970s) was a U.S. federal holiday honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. signed into law?
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Harris also said she would support making Election Day a federal holiday as part of a new Voting Rights Act.
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Most U.S. businesses on Google Maps were marked as celebrating the federal holiday, helping potential customers figure out opening hours.
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There are proposals to move Election Day to the weekend, or make it a federal holiday, but they've gone nowhere.
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Since 1937, his legacy has been remembered on the second Monday of October with the federal holiday of Columbus Day.
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" The Arkansas Republican called the federal holiday "an occasion we set aside to honor those who have fallen in combat.
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Trump had no public events scheduled upon his return to Washington, when Veterans Day was observed as a federal holiday.
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It appears that today, on this President's day, a federal holiday, we all may be able to breathe a bit.
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It is not a federal holiday in the United States, so American government offices and services will operate as usual.
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Instead, they will be taken to central booking, where they will remain until Tuesday, because Monday is a federal holiday.
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HR1, The For the People Act, would make Election Day a federal holiday, but that's just one element, Douglas asserted.
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Detractors say a federal holiday would be too big an ask of businesses that rely on day-to-day revenue.
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There was also no immediate detail on whether this would be a presidential proclamation or a call for a federal holiday.
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Today, Christmas is a federal holiday in the US, as is the nearest weekday after, should Christmas fall on a weekend.
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Global bond markets sold off further Friday though the U.S. Treasury market was closed for the U.S. Veterans Day federal holiday.
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The federal government does not declare holidays for any religious celebrations, save for Christmas Day, which is itself a federal holiday.
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If enacted, the law would, among other things, make Election Day a federal holiday and allow same day registration in person.
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There'd be a federal holiday in your honor and it would be called 'Guy Who Decided Not To Be President's Day'.
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In 1836, Alabama was the first state to make Christmas a legal holiday, and it became a federal holiday in 1870.
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In 85033, Christopher Columbus was honored with an official U.S. federal holiday, although only about than half the states commemorate it.
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Columbus Day's position as a federal holiday, meaning most banks are closed and federal government workers get a paid break, stands.
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Among many other measures, it proposes making Election Day a federal holiday and encourages private sector businesses to do the same.
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Trump spoke during the U.S. Memorial Day weekend, a federal holiday honoring Americans who have died while serving in the armed forces.
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It would create a national automatic voter registration, make Election Day a federal holiday, and boost early voting and same-day registration.
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Thirty-five years after Ronald Reagan signed the bill making King's birthday a federal holiday, there are those who still resist it.
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The New York Democrat first questioned why Columbus Day is a federal holiday and Election Day is not in a tweet Saturday.
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But expectations of rising oil output in the United States as well as the U.S. federal holiday on Monday capped price gains.
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There's dinner tonight to prepare, and cookouts and barbecues to run on both weekend days and on Monday's federal holiday to boot.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell doesn't think Election Day should be a federal holiday because that would give Democrats too much power.
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The stock market was closed on Wednesday for the federal holiday, President Donald Trump declared for former President George H.W. Bush's state funeral.
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Columbus Day has been a point of contention ever since it was named a federal holiday by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1934.
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As Americans celebrate Presidents Day — the federal holiday observing Washington's birthday — what might our first president say today about the 2628 presidential race?
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Although Columbus Day remains a federal holiday, critics say the U.S. should stop celebrating Christopher Columbus's voyages specifically and European colonization in general.
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PETE BUTTIGIEG: We know that with the White House in the right hands we can make, for example, Election Day a federal holiday.
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As Joseph Berger observed in a 2009 Times article, Presidents' Day is perhaps the only federal holiday that's free of parades and fireworks.
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Thanksgiving is a federal holiday that the government recognizes, but it was a festival and a holiday before we had a nation-state.
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For example, see Stevie Wonder's "Happy Birthday Song," originally written for Dr. King after there was opposition to creating the federal holiday, above.
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This year, the federal holiday in his honor, which takes place every third Monday of January, falls on his actual birthday, January 15.
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The president's schedule listed no public events to mark the federal holiday honoring King's life, which had drawn criticism from civil rights activists.
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AND FINALLY … In 1971, Congress declared a federal holiday in honor of George Washington's birthday, to be celebrated on the third Monday in February.
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That bump continued in the days immediately following, as the federal holiday on Monday made it possible for more consumers to hit the mall.
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Reagan signed the Martin Luther King Jr. federal holiday into law in 1983 well aware that any veto would have been overridden by Congress.
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This week, ahead of the January 15th federal holiday, a new speech appears at the top of the playlist: Oprah's Golden Globes acceptance speech.
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Veterans Day: This federal holiday falls on November 11 and is designated as a day to honor all who have served in the military.
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Yes, it would include a provision to make Election Day a federal holiday as part of a suite of reforms to improve voter turnout.
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What is the name of the U.S. federal holiday that was first observed in 1986 in honor of its namesake's accomplishments in civil rights?
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As the federal holiday approaches on Monday, both Wisconsin and Washington, D.C., this month declared the second Monday of October as Indigenous Peoples' Day.
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That federal holiday — traditionally used to honor explorer Christopher Columbus — is instead being celebrated as Indigenous Peoples Day in many spots throughout the nation.
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President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence visited the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington to honor the civil rights leader's federal holiday.
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The controversy prompted a special City Council meeting to consider making the city's holiday name match that of the federal holiday honoring Dr. King.
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Since Congress passed legislation in 1983, every president since Ronald Reagan has signed the proclamation commemorating the civil rights leader with the federal holiday.
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The Senator also supports making Election Day a federal holiday, passing automatic voter registration at the ederal level, and expanding public funding for elections.
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Beginning in 23, Martin Luther King Day — the first federal holiday honoring an African American — would be observed on the third Monday in January.
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Instead, the winner needs to move two more spaces past the assassination, from 1968 to 1986, when King is honored with a federal holiday.
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McConnell is making a different argument altogether: He's saying that making Election Day a federal holiday would result in unfavorable election outcomes for Republicans.
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Trump excused federal employees from work on Monday and Christmas is a federal holiday, meaning the public could begin feeling the shutdown's effects on Wednesday.
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Spanning Good Friday to Easter Monday, the bank holiday is the British equivalent of a US Federal holiday, just with a slightly more twee name.
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All were a day's work for the increasingly agitated leader, who resumed his schedule in clamorous fashion after a week abroad and a federal holiday.
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Election Day isn't a federal holiday yet, so the voting public needs to make sure to take time next Tuesday to head to the polls.
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Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park in Atlanta will reopen on Saturday ahead of the federal holiday with financial help from Delta Air Lines.
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In Phoenix, a community organizing and advocacy group, Puente Arizona, had already helped prepare six applications on Monday, even though it was a federal holiday.
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In my travels, I've never seen an election held on a weekday or federal holiday — other countries know that workers need time off to vote.
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Though the day was not made into a federal holiday, Truman wrote in the proclamation that citizens should "pause" and contemplate freedom on the day.
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Because Diwali is not a federal holiday in the United States, it's sometimes hard for these members of Congress to take time off for celebrations.
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Trump, who has no public appearances scheduled during Monday's federal holiday, has spent some of the day defending his foreign policy in Syria via Twitter.
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But Monday was a federal holiday, and the meeting never occurred — and there was no word from the speaker on how she planned to proceed.
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Protesters have used the federal holiday to organize "Not my Presidents Day" rallies in major cities, following several weekends of organized protests against the new president.
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TV and the HarrisX polling company, found 2900 percent of voters said Election Day should be a federal holiday, while 220006 percent said it should not.
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The Christopher Columbus statue in Providence was one of at least two that were vandalized in the U.S. as the country celebrated the federal holiday Monday.
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The White House on Monday did release a video message in which Trump marked the federal holiday and extolled King's legacy and Trump retweeted the video.
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U.S. markets were closed Monday for the President's Day federal holiday, having closed little changed on Friday to finish out a positive week on Wall Street.
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But it's not actually a federal holiday, which means that for many people, just getting to work and to the polls in time is a struggle.
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In 1983, Conyers introduced the original bill to make Martin Luther King Jr. Day a federal holiday and in 1994 worked on the Violence against Women Act.
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The date of the first British landing on Australia, January 26, has since been celebrated as Australia Day, and is now a federal holiday in the country.
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A majority of respondents in a new American Barometer survey say Election Day should be a federal holiday for which everyone gets a day off from work.
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Military kids thank their parents Since this federal holiday falls on a Saturday this year, many workers and students have the day off on Friday November 22013.
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On Monday, the United States observed Memorial Day, a federal holiday that capped a three-day weekend of events honoring those who died in American military service.
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While the federal holiday allows many of us a long weekend to get some extra errands in, it also means a variety of services will be closed.
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The men had weapons and discussed traveling to the rally, which is scheduled for the State Capitol in Richmond on Monday, a federal holiday celebrating the Rev.
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The nation had been celebrating Thanksgiving on the fourth Thursday of November ever since Abraham Lincoln declared the day a federal holiday following the battle of Gettysburg.
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It hits a number of popular ideas among liberals, including expanding online voter registration and mail-in ballots, limiting gerrymandering and making Election Day a federal holiday.
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Monday, typically the most important press day, happened to be Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a federal holiday recognized by the automakers and our parent company Vox Media.
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On one federal holiday, prosecutor Aaron Zebley with the special counsel's office stopped to ask us if Mueller had yet to arrive, knowing we probably had the answer.
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So on Tuesday as business returned following the Martin Luther King federal holiday, a bevy of companies announced they would be adding jobs after the inauguration on Friday.
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In 1983 the state merged the holiday to coincide with the Federal Holiday honoring Civil Rights Leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. In 2000, the holiday was split.
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Once a mere harvest festival, celebrated in helter-skelter fashion, Abraham Lincoln made it a federal holiday on October 3, 1863, at the height of the Civil War.
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Election Day should be a federal holiday, so that people will be able to vote – and even wait in lines to vote – without worrying about losing their jobs.
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CN: Also, the thing I've never gotten over about Chicago is the way that a sunny day is an event there on the order of a Federal holiday.
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While not a federal holiday, Women's Equality Day can be used as an opportunity to educate yourself about women's history and learn about new efforts to expand voting rights.
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On Sunday's show, which took place one day before the federal holiday honoring the late civil rights icon, Pence attempted to make a comparison between King and Trump, 213.
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Oregon was the first state to set aside an official holiday, in 103, and in 1894, President Grover Cleveland and Congress made it a legal federal holiday for everyone.
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Other fresh start dates would be things like the day after your birthday, the day after a federal holiday, if you're in university, the first day of a semester.
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While the government was closed for a federal holiday and the Senate out on recess until next week, Republican senators were hardly scrambling to take part in the melee.
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The shoe delivery company is giving its employees a day off, and is also campaigning to make the leap year a federal holiday in the U.S. through a Change.
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First, the bond market was closed due to the federal holiday, so investors looking for recession-proof deals turned to stock-picking in European and Asian markets, Cramer said.
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But there was no indication that those four leaders were planning to meet over the long Martin Luther King Day federal holiday weekend or when they might produce legislation.
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Many Americans got the day off Monday because of Columbus Day, but the federal holiday is instead being celebrated as Indigenous Peoples Day in many spots throughout the nation.
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Oregon was the first state to set aside an official holiday, in 1887, and in 20183, President Grover Cleveland and Congress made it a legal federal holiday for everyone.
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The United States will observe a federal holiday Wednesday in honor of the late George H.W. Bush, America's 41st president, who passed away on November 30 at age 94.
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In 1971, this long-standing tradition was recognized as a federal holiday meant as a time for our nation to come together as one and recognize the cost of freedom.
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Other sources pointed to the timing of the release -- the Sunday night before a federal holiday -- as a possible indication the White House is not as serious about the list.
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While Columbus Day is still a federal holiday, Maine would become the eighth state to take up such legislation in an effort to rename it in honor of Native Americans.
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"In my opinion ... that is the appropriate step to take, for the holiday to have the same name as the federal holiday," Andrew "FoFo" Gilich wrote on Biloxi's official website.
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The celebration of Christopher Columbus, a federal holiday since 1934, has been shadowed for decades as critics have pointed to the Italian explorer's role in the destruction of indigenous cultures.
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Columbus Day, the U.S. federal holiday celebrated today in honor of the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus, was central to the process through which Italian-Americans were fully ratified as white.
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It's Martin Luther King's Birthday, a federal holiday, in the U.S. We're covering the Times editorial board's endorsement for the Democratic presidential nomination, and the matchup for Super Bowl LIV.
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A Christopher Columbus statue in Rhode Island was found vandalized with red paint on Columbus Day, days after a similar incident in San Francisco in protest of the federal holiday.
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It would also make Election Day a federal holiday, something that Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell labeled as a Democratic power grab that could open the gates to voter fraud.
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At first glance, announcing on a federal holiday seemed a bit odd, but Harris' announcement was the only thing happening that day -- other than Trump tweets -- and she dominated the coverage.
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After the board took the unusual step of rescheduling its monthly meeting for Martin Luther King's Birthday, a state and federal holiday, a crowd of Hoboken residents showed up to protest.
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But Trump is not scheduled to participate in any service projects on the federal holiday that he and every other US president have designated as a "day of service" since 1994.
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The General Services Administration is announcing this meeting with less than 15 calendar days' public notice as July 85033 was a federal holiday, thus delaying the administrative processing of the notice.
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There are also far better ways to honor American troops than by forcing them to wear a full dress uniform in the Washington humidity and 90-degree heat on a federal holiday.
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LEADING THE DAY POLITICS: The 2020 Democratic presidential hopefuls took advantage of the federal holiday on Monday to position themselves in the growing field of candidates and to draw contrasts with Trump.
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The ambitious compendium, at nearly 700 pages, includes proposals designating Election Day as a federal holiday, automatically registering citizens to vote, and restoring voting rights to people who have served felony sentences.
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And just days after King was assassinated in 1968, Conyers introduced a bill that would create a federal holiday in honor of King, years before Ronald Reagan would eventually sign it into law.
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This is weird for a couple of reasons: For starters, my source says they can't remember ever getting relieved for a non-federal holiday, especially one that's so blatantly religious (it's Good Friday).
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While Columbus Day is still a federal holiday, Maine would join a handful of other states that have recently taken up legislation in an effort to rename it in honor of Native Americans.
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But like last year, Trump is not scheduled to participate in any service projects on the federal holiday he and every other US president have designated as a "day of service" since 1994.
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Under the plan, all Americans will be automatically registered to vote when they turn 18, election day will be designated as a federal holiday, and the Federal Election Commission will undergo numerous reforms.
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Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a federal holiday honoring the life of the civil rights leader, is observed in the U.S. on Monday — a day after what would have been his 63th birthday.
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But Halloween is not a federal holiday, and the White House is under no obligation to do anything with the petition -- though cementing a calendar change may not actually be its organizers' intention.
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Technically, Columbus Day is a federal holiday, which means it is recognized by the US government and thus brings the closure of non-essential government offices, and, usually, places like post offices and banks.
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After Congress finally passed a bill making King's birthday a federal holiday in 1983, Alabama was one of three states to take the outrageous step of combining King Day with Robert E. Lee Day.
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Washington (CNN)Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell faced backlash from Democrats for calling their House bill a "power grab" as it included a provision to make Election Day a federal holiday, among other changes.
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As we do around most holiday periods, in today's chart of the day we summarize the performance of the during the holiday-shortened week since it first became recognized as a Federal Holiday in 1971.
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One funny thing about his opposition to the idea of a paid federal holiday on Election Day is that in McConnell's home state of Kentucky, presidential Election Day is already a paid state government holiday.
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John Chafee of the Atlanta Police Department told The Associated Press that the police report was not available Monday because the public affairs unit was closed for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a federal holiday.
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Martin Luther King Jr. Day, an annual federal holiday since 1986, celebrates the national civil rights leader who was instrumental in challenging the racial caste system that delineated how millions of Americans lived their lives.
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"Unfortunately, Election Day is not a federal holiday in the United States, making it difficult for many people to take time off from their jobs to vote," payments company Square said in a post last week.
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Originally known as "Decoration Day," Memorial Day officially became a federal holiday honoring all Americans who died while in military service in the U.S. pursuant to the Uniform Monday Holiday Act, passed in June 28503. 22019.
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That's from magazine editor and cookbook writer Sarah Josepha Hale, who successfully lobbied President Abraham Lincoln to proclaim the last Thursday in November a Thanksgiving Day, though it wasn't made an official federal holiday until 1941.
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Furthermore, it added those changes on the evening of a federal holiday, in a closed-door meeting, and without a roll call — without any way for the public to know which individual members supported the change.
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A federal holiday honoring Dr. King was first proposed four days after he was assassinated, in 1968, but it took almost two decades of campaigning for it to be approved and designated at the national level.
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But Hall, the first African American to represent Indiana in Congress, also had another goal: She wanted to add her name to the fight to make Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday a federal holiday.
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"The left has finally found the only immigrant in history who had no right to come to America," Carlson said on "Tucker Carlson Tonight" Monday, Columbus Day, the federal holiday celebrating Columbus' landing in North America.
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In a speech on the Senate floor, Mitch McConnell on Wednesday denounced Democratic legislation intended to increase voter turnout as a "power grab," singling out one proposal as particularly nefarious: making Election Day a federal holiday.
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With the partial government shutdown in its fourth week, many travelers will miss their chance to relive part of King's legacy and teach children about the civil rights movement in the days leading to the federal holiday.
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Tucked into a cookbook called The Virginia Housewife, published in the year 1824—two centuries after that first Thanksgiving, but 40 years before Thanksgiving became a federal holiday—oyster ice cream made its first appearance in writing.
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Late in the evening on a federal holiday, behind closed doors and with no public record of how members of Congress voted, House Republicans voted to advance a proposal to eviscerate the independent watchdog overseeing their ethics.
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The city's agreement to pay Mr. Johnson to settle the lawsuit was announced just before Flag Day, which has been observed on June 14 for more than a century, although it is not an official federal holiday.
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On the federal holiday honoring her father's role as a civil rights leader, she spoke to an audience at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, where her father once preached, and gave a riveting speech about holding onto hope.
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Alabama, along with Mississippi, still jointly celebrates Martin Luther King Jr Day, a federal holiday, at the same time as Robert E Lee Day, a state holiday that commemorates the birthday of the commander of the Confederate army.
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That said, either way, early voting appears to be a compromise between those who would prefer that Election Day be a federal holiday and the view that all voting should take place on the same non-holiday weekday.
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It may not be a federal holiday in the U.S., but it's considered to be one of the oldest Christian celebrations (it's been traced back to the year 68 C.E.), and it's as significant as Easter or Christmas.
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Today's a day to bake for those who are working on a federal holiday, maybe: supernatural brownies for the firehouse or the team in the I.C.U.; ginger-molasses cookies for the newsroom or the cops on the beat.
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That might be addressed with a federal holiday provision mandating that all employees have several hours of paid time off on voting day, said Adam Bonica, an elections expert and associate professor of political science at Stanford University.
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Which may not be this weekend, since America is heading into a federal holiday on Monday — Columbus Day, officially; it's Indigenous Peoples' Day to some — and there'll be cookouts for a lot of us, family gatherings with friends.
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He voted against a bill to make Martin Luther King's birthday a federal holiday but backed legislation to support his Native American constituents, including the 1988 Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, which opened the way for tribal casino development.
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While the company says the issue has been resolved and was not the result of fraud, the headache isn't over for affected sellers because Monday is a federal holiday in the United States, and many financial institutions are closed.
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Labor Day was birthed in the 1880s out of a march/celebration organized by the Central Labor Union (though it did not become a federal holiday until 1894) with the very intention of giving laborers a well-deserved break.
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The new rule, which takes effect this year, coincides with sweeping Democratic legislation that would make Election Day a federal holiday, prohibit the purging of voter rolls and require presidential candidates to release their tax returns, among other changes.
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Voting rights: Allow citizens to register to vote online and be registered automatically; require paper ballots in federal elections; make Election Day a federal holiday; prohibit voter roll purging; and end partisan gerrymandering by having independent commissions redraw congressional districts.
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And it's willing to take a shit-ton of empty beer cans to Congress, in an attempt to get the men and women in charge to make Election Day a Federal holiday, so everyone can make their way to the polls.
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Washington will have a long weekend to think it all over with a federal holiday on Monday in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. The streets here will be packed with conservative and liberal activists from all over the country.
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Or, if you are working, cut out a little early just like seemingly everyone else on the Friday after a Thursday federal holiday, so you can get home to make, I don't know, Peruvian roast chicken with spicy cilantro sauce?
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House Republicans voted on a measure Monday night — on a federal holiday, with no advance public notice, and reportedly despite opposition from leaders Paul Ryan and Kevin McCarthy — that would eliminate both the office's independence and its ability to communicate with the public.
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Joseph McCarthy in the 218s on the Senate floor, but he was also a leading member of a group of southern senators who frequently opposed civil rights bills and later the establishment of a federal holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr. in 21980.
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He co-sponsored the original Voting Rights Act of 1965, and shortly after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968 ... Conyers introduced a bill that would honor Dr. King with a federal holiday, which President Reagan signed into law years later.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Wednesday railed against a sweeping election reform and anti-corruption package by House Democrats that includes a proposal to make Election Day a federal holiday, which he claimed would hand Democrats too much power.
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That's because tax filing deadlines are pushed back to the next business day if April 15 falls on a weekend, a federal holiday, or a holiday celebrated in Washington, DC. And this year April 15 was a holiday in the District of Columbia.
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As we honor the life and contributions of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., culminating on Monday's federal holiday, and as we drift into year two of the Trump presidency, here are five things everyone can do to be better Americans than the President.
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To that end, a number of commentators have proposed turning Election Day into a federal holiday; merging Election Day with Veterans Day (which this year is just three days later); moving Election Day to a weekend; or some combination of all three of these proposals.
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Several decades later, in 1968, the federal government established Memorial Day as a federal holiday to be celebrated on the last Monday of May, a move that established the three-day weekend that we now enjoy, while maintaining the decorum of the melancholy holiday.
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"This deal, being rushed through on the last day of the Christie administration — and on a federal holiday, no less — is emblematic of everything the public has come to loathe about N.J. Transit and another reason why it needs a complete overhaul," Mr. Murphy said.
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Taking back our history has been a task unto itself, one performed over and over in any number of milieus, from making Martin Luther King Jr. Day a federal holiday to putting Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill to war reenactments, like this one.
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Nationwide, Election Day is still not a federal holiday, which hits working people particularly hard: In 2014, 35 percent of registered voters who decided not to vote in the midterm elections cited work or school conflicts as the reason, according to a Pew Research Center survey.
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And for anyone who has already mentally checked out knowing that tomorrow is a U.S. federal holiday, it's a good way to burn some time — especially given that Facebook, Instagram and a bunch of the other time-suck sites are all kinds of broken right now.
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The only federal holiday built entirely around a meal, Thanksgiving is to us what the Super Bowl is to the Sports section and what the Oscars are to the Arts section: a national, communal rite that inspires keen anticipation, dogged preparation and no small degree of excess.
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That's more than offer holidays for Columbus Day or George Washington's Birthday (also commonly referred to as Presidents Day.) The popularity of the federal holiday has grown in recent years, but as recently as 2009, only 28 percent of employers gave the day off, according to Bloomberg Law.
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On the "cute" side of the spectrum, we have his patently nanny state idea to Reduce Harm to Children Caused by Smartphones by creating a Department of Attention Economy, or his pitch for Making Taxes Fun by way of a new federal holiday and White House visit raffle.
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With the grant, the park will reportedly be reopened on Saturday and remain open for 85033 days so that people can celebrate the civil rights hero ahead of the federal holiday on Monday and as the state makes preparations to host the Super Bowl game on Feb. 3.
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The simpler one is that we — both naturalized U.S. citizens — sought to pay tribute to our brave men and women in uniform on the annual federal holiday that honors their service and sacrifice, and to have this published on the 22017th anniversary of the armistice signed at 11 a.m.
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There may be no more amazing experience than to be in New York City on a day such as this one, the populace thinned by decent employers who allow workers to bridge the weekend and tomorrow's federal holiday, the maddening subways barely full, the traffic lightly threading Midtown's streets.
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From 1983 to 2000, Virginia had a state holiday called Lee-Jackson-King Day — created when legislators decided it made sense to merge Lee-Jackson Day (a state holiday honoring Lee and his Confederate comrade Stonewall Jackson) with the newly minted federal holiday of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
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" The professor wrote back: "And just FYI, July 4th is not the day we tape a sign to a damn stick and go out and march with smug college brats and dysphoric drama queens, it is a federal holiday commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.
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He did support the extension of the Voting Rights Act, sanctions against apartheid South Africa, and the creation of a federal holiday for Martin Luther King, Jr. But in the 1970s, as a freshman senator, Biden fought against busing white children to majority black schools and black children to majority white schools.
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Student Opinion 10 Photos View Slide Show ' Many schools in the United States are off for Columbus Day, so we're taking a short break ourselves — but, as The Times reports, we may not be calling this early fall holiday "Columbus Day" for much longer: Columbus Day has been a federal holiday since 1934.
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Among recent presidents, only Ronald Reagan — who opposed making Martin Luther King Jr. Day a federal holiday, but eventually reversed himself, and who vetoed the Comprehensive Apartheid Act, which, with a congressional override, leveled sanctions against South Africa for its oppressive racist social architecture — appointed and confirmed a higher percentage of white judges.
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It is a Monday and a federal holiday and, if you're not working, you should take it for yourself in the kitchen and see how the labor frees your mind, settles you down and puts in front of you a tart (c'mon, give it a shot!) where there never was a tart.
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"While the increase in businesses providing Martin Luther King, Jr. day off with pay certainly is striking, it is worth noting that the majority of U.S. employers still do not give employees a paid day off for the federal holiday," Molly Huie, Bloomberg BNA's Manager of Survey and Research Reports, said in a release.
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In addition to his overseas trip to Italy to see the pope — which will also include a stop in Israel — the vice president was in Memphis this past weekend to tour a civil rights museum and deliver remarks honoring Martin Luther King Jr. ahead of the federal holiday commemorating the civil rights leader's birthday.
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The resolution noted that while Mr. King was not a veteran himself, his stepson John Cooper, whom he had raised, was killed in combat during World War II. The community raised money to send Mr. King and his wife, Gertrude, to Washington to meet with officials and push them to change the name of the federal holiday.
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Regardless, more than 120 years after it became a federal holiday, a 50-year-old New Jersey woman started her long Labor Day weekend by taking a picture of a former sitcom actor working at her local Trader Joe's, sending it to a handful of celebrity-focused websites and ultimately selling it to the Daily Mail.
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"Columbus Day was officially designated as a federal holiday in 1937, despite the fact Columbus did not discover North America, despite the fact millions of people were already living in North America upon his arrival to the Americas, and despite the fact Columbus never set foot on the shores of the current United States," Grosso said before the council's vote Tuesday.
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Martin Luther King III said Monday -- the federal holiday honoring his father -- that he had a "very constructive" meeting with President-elect Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE at Trump Tower in New York.
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Since the mid-1980s, the third Monday in January has been designated as a US federal holiday in honor of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., celebrating one of the greatest Americans — except if you live in Arkansas, Alabama, and Mississippi, the three states where MLK Day is a joint holiday that also marks the birthday of Confederate Army general Robert E. Lee.
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Current position: n/a Age: 55 Born: Wood-Ridge, New Jersey Undergraduate: Columbia University Date candidacy announced: July 28, 2017 % of votes in line with Trump, per FiveThirtyEight: 34.4% Previous roles: Representative for Maryland's 6th district, co-founder and CEO of CapitalSource, co-founder and CEO of Health Care Financial Partners Gerrymandering: As a congressman, Delaney introduced the Open Our Democracy Act, legislation aimed at ending gerrymandering and establishing Election Day as a federal holiday.
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Rashida TlaibRashida Harbi TlaibScaramucci calls on GOP to save country from Trump 'depredations' The Hill's Morning Report - Trump searches for backstops amid recession worries Mueller report fades from political conversation MORE (D-Mich.), Pramila Jaypal (D-Wash.), and others, this bill makes Election Day a federal holiday, ensuring that a larger percentage of the country's low-wage workers are freed from the pressure of requesting time off to partake in their constitutional right to vote.
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John CornynJohn CornynNew Parnas evidence escalates impeachment witnesses fight On The Money — Presented by Wells Fargo — Trump signs first phase of US-China trade deal | Senate to vote Thursday on Canada, Mexico deal | IRS provides relief for those with discharged student loans Roberts, senators to be sworn in Thursday for impeachment trial MORE (R-Texas), a member of GOP leadership and a close McConnell adviser, told reporters on Monday that opening arguments from the Pelosi impeachment managers and Trump defense team could come a week from Tuesday, which would be a day after the MLK federal holiday.
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