[History of Bills, Volume 143 (1997)]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]


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H.R. 40--A bill 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, subsequent 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; to the Committee on 
    the Judiciary.


By Mr. CONYERS (for himself, Mr. Fattah, Mr. Foglietta, Mr. Hastings 
of Florida, Mr. Hilliard, Mr. Jefferson, Ms. Eddie Bernice Johnson of 
Texas, Mrs. Meek of Florida, Mr. Owens, Mr. Rush, and Mr. Towns), H68 
[7JA]

  Cosponsors added, H285 [4FE], H407 [10FE], H628 [25FE], H2168 [5MY], 
  H2680 [14MY], H5916 [28JY], H9558 [24OC]