Support a commission to study slavery’s and discrimination’s effects

Clyburn supports H.R. 40, which would create a commission to study the economic, educational, and health effects of slavery and later legally recognized discrimination, including Jim Crow laws. The commission would recommend remedies for the harms of disenfranchisement and discrimination.

Context: The passage describes a bill to study these effects and recommend remedies; it does not specify what remedies the commission would recommend.

In their own words

Whip Clyburn supports H.R. 40, a bill to study the crushing economic, educational, and health impacts

The source

James E. Clyburn: Record and Vision ↗

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