[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 35 (Thursday, March 24, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: March 24, 1994]
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              SUPPORT MINORITY REPRESENTATION IN CONGRESS

  (Mr. WATT asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WATT. Mr. Speaker, yesterday in the hustle and bustle of my 
office, I had a very cogent moment. I was visited by a young black 
student from Cardoza High School right here in Washington, DC. He 
knocked on the door unannounced, without appointment, and he came in 
and he said,

       I have been on the Hill all day, and I have yet to see a 
     black Member of Congress. And I just wanted to see and talk 
     to one.

  It reminded me of the importance of minority representation again in 
this body, against the backdrop that Monday of this coming week the 
trial of the case in Shaw versus Reno will commence.
  So I wanted to come today to remind my colleagues and to appeal to 
them to support minority representation. We have two cogent things that 
are upon us in the next month or so. This case, Shaw versus Reno, and 
what we are about in South Africa. We should demand in our country the 
same standard of representation among black residents that we demand of 
South Africa for whites in that country after the free elections.

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