No Black lawmakers sat on the committee that wrote the 1969 tax law

Evidence

The legislation that made black married couples poorer was enacted by a Congress that included ten black members of the House and one black senator. But there were no black members on the House Ways and Means Committee, where tax legislation originates. There was no black Charlotte and Henry Seaborn, with the wealth and time to fight the laws that took money out of their pockets. — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth, 119

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the exclusion-from-power-mechanisms theme threaded through the reader’s institutional-reading history — representation shapes whose interests the code encodes.