[History of Bills, Volume 155 (2009)]
[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, 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; to the Committee on 
    the Judiciary.


By Mr. CONYERS (for himself and Mr. Scott of Virginia), H29 [6JA]

  Cosponsors added, H91 [8JA], H325 [14JA], H3401 [12MR], H8184 [15JY]