II 118th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 40 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES January 24 (legislative day, January 3), 2023 Mr. Booker (for himself, Mr. Durbin , Mr. Markey , Mr. Casey , Mr. Merkley , Ms. Hirono , Mrs. Feinstein , Mr. Sanders , Mr. Cardin , Ms. Duckworth , Mr. Kaine , Ms. Baldwin , Mr. Padilla , Mr. Van Hollen , Mr. Whitehouse , Ms. Warren , Ms. Klobuchar , Mr. Brown , Ms. Smith , Mr. Coons , Mr. Blumenthal , and Mrs. Murray ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary A BILL To address the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery in the United States and the 13 American colonies between 1619 and 1865 and to establish a commission to study and consider a national apology and proposal for reparations for the institution of slavery, its subsequent de jure and de facto racial and economic discrimination against African Americans, and the impact of these forces on living African Americans, to make recommendations to the Congress on appropriate remedies, and for other purposes.