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Now comes the hard part: Getting buy-in from enough lawmakers
Rep. Joyce Beatty listens as Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, chair of the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security, attends a markup in the House Judiciary Committee for H.R. 40. | J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo
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Reparations legislation could soon be headed to the House floor for the first time in more than three decades. Now comes the hard part.
Wednesday night, the House Judiciary Committee voted to bring H.R. 40 out of committee a historic feat not accomplished since the late Rep.
John Conyers (D-Mich.) first introduced a reparations bill in 1989.
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