[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 25 (Thursday, February 6, 2020)]
[House]
[Page H859]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




           ADMINISTRATION'S LACK OF DIVERSITY IN ITS ACTIONS

  (Mr. COHEN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. COHEN. Madam Speaker, I am concerned about the lack of diversity, 
the lack of care about diversity that this administration shows in its 
appointments and its actions.
  In the Federal judiciary, the President has appointed approximately 
250 judges, 6 of whom are African American. That is a disturbing and 
chilling number.
  In a Super Bowl ad, he showed Alice Marie Johnson, whom he gave 
executive clemency to, a commutation, and said he was trying to help 
people who looked like her, an African American woman.
  He has given two executive clemencies to African Americans. One was 
Jack Johnson, posthumous, dead for 80 years. Only one living African 
American has gotten a commutation, and that was when Kim Kardashian 
championed her case, as Sylvester Stallone championed that of Jack 
Johnson.
  During his speech, he talked about the Tuskegee Airman, the woman who 
he said would get a scholarship, the young girl. The fact is he just 
appointed a TVA Board, Tennessee Valley Board, nine members--no African 
Americans, one woman.
  The lack of diversity is chilling. America is diverse. It is our 
strength. We need to embrace it and not have an all White world.

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