HR40; $8Million Commission On Slavery Reparations
Monster readers, are you ready for this from another email? I have bolded the sections that are relevant. This is not the complete text as much of it is redundant, but rest assured; I read it. From GovTrack: HR40 Rep. John Conyers [D-MI] Cosponsors [as of 2009-03-07] Rep. Robert Scott [D-VA] Rep. Steve Cohen [D-TN] Rep. Luis Gutiérrez [D-IL] Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act To acknowledge the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery in the United States and the 13 American colonies between 1619 and 1865 and to establish a commission to examine the institution…