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110TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 110-848
CIVIL RIGHTS HISTORY PROJECT ACT OF 2008
SEPTEMBER 15, 2008.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the
State of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. BRADY of Pennsylvania, from the Committee on House
Administration, submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 998]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on House Administration, to whom was referred
the bill (H.R. 998) to direct the Librarian of Congress and the Sec-
retary of the Smithsonian Institution to carry out a joint project at
the Library of Congress and the National Museum of African
American History and Culture to collect video and audio recordings
of personal histories and testimonials of individuals who partici-
pated in the Civil Rights movement, and for other purposes, having
considered the same, report favorably thereon with amendments
and recommend that the bill as amended do pass.
The amendments (stated in terms of the page and line numbers
of the introduced bill) are as follows:
Page 2, line 3, strike 2007 and insert 2008.
Page 8, line 14, strike 2008 and insert 2009.
Page 8, line 16, strike 2009 through 2012 and insert 2010
through 2013.
PURPOSE OF THE LEGISLATION
H.R. 998, the Civil Rights History Project Act of 2008, would au-
thorize funding to create a comprehensive compilation of audio and
video recordings of personal histories and testimonials of individ-
uals who participated in the Civil Rights movement.
BILL SUMMARY
H.R. 998 would direct the Library of Congress and the Smithso-
nian Institution's National Museum of African American History
and Culture to jointly work to collect and preserve for posterity
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