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The vote was 410-4, with three Republicans and the House’s sole Independent, Rep. Justin Amash, opposing the bill. A White House official has told NPR that the president is expected to sign the legislation into law.
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JUST IN: The House of Representatives has approved legislation making lynching a federal hate crime for the first time in U.S. history. The Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act was named for the 14-year-old teenager who was lynched in Mississippi in the 1950s.
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Thank you
@HouseDemocrats . It is LONG overdue.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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What took so long?
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White supremacy is what took so long
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About time.
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It’s 2020, and this legislation just got approved?
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I honest to God thought this was a "On This Date in History..." post.
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Just a bit tardy
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