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General Category => Politics/Government => Topic started by: mystery-ak on April 17, 2021, 06:33:02 pm
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Democrats debate timing and wisdom of reparations vote
By Mike Lillis - 04/17/21 06:00 AM EDT
Reparations advocates notched a historic victory this week when a House committee approved, for the first time, legislation to study whether Black Americans should receive restitution for slavery.
Now those lawmakers want a vote on the floor.
But while Democratic leaders in the last Congress had promised quick action on the reparations bill if it passed through the House Judiciary Committee, they're treading more carefully this year.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) supports the proposal but is leaving the vote calendar decisions to House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.). Hoyer suggested Thursday that the bill will reach the floor at some point but stopped short of committing to a vote, saying instead that he would converse with Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.).
"I'm going to talk to the chairman, see what we're going to do with it. I presume it'll get a floor vote," Hoyer said.
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas), the bill's lead sponsor, all but guaranteed the measure will eventually reach the floor, saying Democrats are aiming to stage the vote roughly two months from now to commemorate Juneteenth, the holiday marking the emancipation of slaves following the Civil War.
"I've spoken to all of leadership," Jackson Lee said. "I feel very comfortable with where we are."
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https://thehill.com/homenews/house/548782-democrats-debate-timing-and-wisdom-of-reparations-vote
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Go ahead.
Pass it.
This could do more for the Pubbies in 2022, then "gun control" did for 'em back in the 1994 election...
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Democrats debate timing and wisdom of reparations vote
By Mike Lillis - 04/17/21 06:00 AM EDT
Reparations advocates notched a historic victory this week when a House committee approved, for the first time, legislation to study whether Black Americans should receive restitution for slavery.
Not true. In 1865, a Republican House and Senate passed the Freedmen's Bureau Act which set out to award reparations. The following year, Congress renewed the charter, but it was vetoed by Democrat Andrew Johnson. If reparations are to be paid, it is the Democrat Party that should be paying them.
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The Dims would be insane for passing such a measure, as there are too many details to overcome.
Such as why does a black husband get reparations when married to a white wife?
Or even worse, what percentage black qualifies for reparations?