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House Panel Advances Bill On Slavery Reparations Nearly 30 years after it was first introduced, the House Judiciary Committee approved H.R. 40 by a vote of 25-17. On Wednesday, April 14, the House Judiciary Committee approved H.R. 40 by a vote of 25-17, as reported by CNN, which will create a commission to study reparations for direct descendants of slaves. The bill will now move to a full House vote and should it pass, it will face a vote by the “evenly divided Senate,” according to NPR. H.R. 40 was first introduced in Congress in 1989 by Michigan Democrat John Conyers. Its name derive...

Fox News contributors Richard Fowler and Charlie Hurt react on ‘America’s Newsroom.’ Texas Rep.-elect Beth Van Duyne is the only Republican candidate in the country to have won an open seat where President Trump won in 2016,  and where President-elect Joe Biden won in 2020, with Republicans strategists calling her seat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s “most bitter loss.”  Van Duyne, who was elected to serve Texas’ 24th District covering Dallas-Fort Worth, made history in November by becoming only the second Republican woman from Texas to be elected to the House of Representativ...