[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 7515]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                TOWN HALL MEETING ON AFFIRMATIVE ACTION

  (Mr. DAVIS of Illinois asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DAVIS of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, on Friday, March 28, at 1 
o'clock, I shall join the Chicago Urban League, several Chicago land 
chapters of the NAACP, the National Association of Health Service 
Executives, the National Alliance of Black School Educators, and others 
in a town hall meeting to address the need for the continuation of 
affirmative action as a way of helping to level the playing field for 
all races and gender groups in employment, education, and upward 
mobility.
  There has been tremendous progress in these areas, but not nearly 
enough. Therefore, we must continue to move America towards becoming a 
land of equal opportunity, which affords to every man and every woman 
his or her chance, their golden opportunity to become whatever their 
manhood, womanhood, talents, and ambitions combine to make them.
  That is indeed the promise of America.

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