The House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill on Dec. 17 to reauthorize legislation that promotes Holocaust education, sending it to President Joe Biden for his signature amid a rise in anti-Semitism.
The Never Again Education Reauthorization Act of 2023 passed 402-12.
It passed the Senate in July by unanimous consent, meaning no senator objected to it, and therefore, no recorded vote was necessary.
The bill, introduced by Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.), reauthorizes the act, which Congress passed and then-President Donald Trump enacted in 2020. That bill expanded education programming by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
It also appropriated $2 million annually over a four-year program since the 2021 fiscal year for the museum to carry out the initiative, which assists educators in teaching about the atrocity that took the lives of 6 million Jews and 5 million others….