H.R.40: 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 of slavery, subsequently de jure and de facto racial and economic discrimination against African-Americans, and the impact of these forces on living African-Americans, to make recommendations to the Congress on appropriate remedies, and for other purposes.

Bill Cosponsors

48 (All Democrats)

• Chaka Fattah (D-Pa.)
• Alcee L. Hastings (D-Fla.)
• Earl F. Hilliard (D-Ala.)
• William J. Jefferson (D-La.)
• Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Texas)
• Carrie P. Meek (D-Fla.)
• Major R. Owens (D-N.Y.)
• Bobby L. Rush (D-Ill.)
• Edolphus Towns (D-N.Y.)
• Ed Pastor (D-Ariz.)
• Donna M.C. Christensen (D-Virgin Islands)
• Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md.)
• Danny K. Davis (D-Ill.)
• Julian C. Dixon (D-Calif.)
• Robert A. Brady (D-Pa.)
• Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.)
• Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas)
• John W. Olver (D-Mass.)
• Jim McGovern (D-Mass.)
• Robert A. Underwood (D-Guam)
• Maxine Waters (D-Calif.)
• Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.)
• Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick (D-Mich.)
• Eva Clayton (D-N.C.)
• Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.)
• Donald M. Payne (D-N.J.)
• Albert Russell Wynn (D-Md.)
• Barbara Lee (D-Calif.)
• Corrine Brown (D-Fla.)
• Gregory W. Meeks (D-N.Y.)
• Eni F. H. Faleomavaega (D-American Samoa)
• Cynthia McKinney (D-Ga.)
• Jesse L. Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.)
• James P. Moran (D-Va.)
• Bart Stupak (D-Mich.)
• Lynn N. Rivers (D-Mich.)
• James A. Traficant Jr. (D-Ohio)
• Ron Klink (D-Pa.)
• Eliot L. Engel (D-N.Y.)
• William Clay (D-Mo.)
• Juanita Millender-McDonald (D-Calif.)
• Harold E. Ford Jr. (D-Tenn.)
• Julia M. Carson (D-Ind.)
• John Lewis (D-Ga.)
• Calvin M. Dooley (D-Calif.)
• Karen McCarthy (D-Mo.)
• Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.)
• Bill Pascrell Jr. (D-N.J.)

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