The House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a bill making June 19—Juneteenth—a federal holiday to mark the end of slavery in the United States, sending the bill to President Joe Biden’s desk. The measure, S. 475, passed on a vote of 415-14 in the chamber. It comes a day after it passed through the Senate with unanimous consent. The president is expected to sign the bill into law at a White House event on June 17 to make it the 11th federal holiday. Under the legislation, the federal holiday would be known as Juneteenth National Independence Day. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas), who introduced a companion bill in the house in February applauded the passage of S. 475. “Thanks to all who worked to make Juneteenth the living symbol of Lincoln’s promise that this nation, under God, ‘would have a new birth of freedom,'” she said on Twitter late Wednesday. In a separate statement, she said …