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      "id": 103010,
      "date": "2002-01-02",
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      "title": "An Overview of H.R. 40 -- the \"Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act\"",
      "summary": "H.R. 40  would establish a federal commission to study the capture, transport, sale, and\ntreatment of slaves from the colonial period through the civil war, and to detail how the institution\nof slavery deprived its victims of family, freedom, culture, and property. The bill also tasks the\ncommission to examine federal and state laws that perpetuated the institution of slavery and the de\nfacto or de jure discrimination against African-Americans after slavery's abolishment. The bill also\ndirects the commission to evaluate slavery's lingering effects on African-Americans today. A\nprimary purpose of the commission is to determine whether remedies in consideration of the\nforegoing are warranted, and, if so, to recommend appropriate reparations.\n  This report describes the commission's purpose and function, and examines its administrative\npowers and structure. It will be updated as circumstances warrant.",
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