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US SCR14
Concurrent Resolution
AI Summary
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Urges establishment of a United States Commission on Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation to acknowledge historical racial injustices and promote progress toward eliminating persistent racial inequities
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Affirms the nation owes a debt of remembrance to those who experienced injustices including chattel slavery (beginning 1619), as well as their descendants, more than 400 years later
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Enumerates discriminatory government actions including FHA residential segregation policies, Social Security exclusions of African Americans, GI Bill discrimination, Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, Japanese American incarceration (1942), and loss of over 90 million acres of Tribal lands through allotment policies
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Identifies additional historical injustices against Native Americans (boarding schools, denial of citizenship until 1924), Latino Americans (1930s-1950s deportation programs), Native Hawaiians (overthrow of Kingdom of Hawaii), and Puerto Ricans (annexation without voting rights)
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Complements rather than replaces the proposed Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans (H.R. 40 and S. 40, 119th Congress)
Legislative Description
A concurrent resolution urging the establishment of a United States Commission on Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation.
Civil rights and liberties, minority issues
Last Action
Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text: CR S3394-3395)
6/12/2025