we absolutely need to look at healthcare-specific reparations remedies.

It is the evidence that school populations of Black and Brown children receive $23 billion less in funding than White school districts.

H.R. 40 is large enough and right enough to be able to hear from Mr. Walker and Attorney Elder.

Pat Toomey can’t win in Pennsylvania. That’s why he’s retiring. It’s not about spending more time in the private sector with his family. It’s because he knows he can’t win because he is -- obviously, he’s disliked intensely by Democrats…

It is the fact that Black people are more than six times as likely as White people to languish behind bars for possessing drugs for personal use.

H.R. 40 is the presence of a continuing sting of disparities.

Without question, history has taught us time and time again that our laws must boldly affirm that Black lives matter.

I think H.R. 40 is absolutely incredible, but I think the facts-finding is very difficult.

Let us be very clear, the commission on H.R. 40 is a commission to fact find, repair, restore, and develop proposals for reparations.

I want to thank you for your leadership and your continued stalwart support for the importance of all Americans.

I am here today to let you know of our strong support for H.R. 40, originally authored by the great John Conyers.

I ask my colleagues to recognize that what we speak of today is based on the continuing impact of the brutality of slavery.

This is a potent and powerful hearing today, and I am glad that we are responding to the majority of Americans who see the value in H.R. 40.

This commission is really, it is no figment of your imagination.

That is what repair is all about, reparative justice.

it is important to keep sight, both of remedying individual harms, undoing structures of injustice.

We believe that the best way to solve that problem is to take it on head first.

This legislation is an important step in acknowledging the inherent cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery.