[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 97 (Wednesday, June 14, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H5910-H5911]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


              SUPREME COURT DECISION TURNS BACK THE CLOCK

  (Mr. HILLIARD asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extent his remarks.)
  Mr. HILLIARD. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to express my displeasure 
over [[Page H5911]] the Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action 
programs. These programs have been in place to assist struggling 
minority and women-owned businesses all over the country, people who 
have been denied opportunities in the past by law and who are still 
being denied opportunities in fact. They have been denied the 
opportunities to participate in this great country. We must not let the 
Republican angry-white-male syndrome keep others from full 
participation in the American dream.
  We must continue to reach out to the disadvantaged, not only to 
blacks, but to women and also to those who have physical disabilities.
  The current Supreme Court decision has turned back the clock of time. 
We must reverse this in order to continue the few decades of progress 
this country has made in the area of diversity, equality, and justice 
for all.
  Mr. Speaker, this Nation cannot afford to go back down the road to 
discrimination.

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