House Panel Votes to Advance Bill on Slavery Reparations
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On Wednesday, a House panel advanced a decades-long effort to pay reparations to the descendants of slaves by approving legislation that would create a commission to study the issue. While left-leaning articles highlight that the debate over whether to pay reparations to the descendants of enslaved people has been fiercely debated over the past year, right-leaning articles highlights that the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act could lead to upwards of 40 million African-Americans receiving payments if signed into law.
A left-leaning article by The Washington Post highlights that the debate over whether to pay reparations to the descendants of enslaved people has been fiercely debated over the past year on the campaign trail. Supporters of the proposal are cheering Wednesday’s vote as an important milestone in their push to deal with the human and economic wounds of slavery.
AP published a centrist article reporting that this is the first time the House Judiciary Committee has acted on the legislation, which would establish a commission to examine slavery and discrimination in the United States from 1619 to the present. The House bill has no Republicans among its 176 co-sponsors.
A right-leaning article by The New York Post highlights that the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act could lead to upwards of 40 million African-Americans receiving payments if signed into law. Republicans have voiced concerns that the bill could be divisive and costly, with some estimates saying the price tag could be $12 trillion.
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