House Revisits Capital Slave Labor Issue.

Reports on the vote of the U.S. House to reopen an investigation into the use of slave labor to construct the Capitol when it passed the legislative Branch appropriations bill on July 9, 2003, a review that might lead to demands for reparations or back wages. Details of the investigation; Approval of a resolution by the U.S. Senate in September 2000 that called for the creation of a task force to recommend a method of recognizing the Capitol's slave laborers.