nomination of Anna Diggs-Taylor to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Michigan

Museums enrich the quality of our communities and provide a sense of continuity and perspective.

nomination of Howard F. Sachs to be United States District Judge for the Western District of Missouri

A healthy nation is built on guaranteed access to health coverage for all citizens.

Much more can be done if State and local energy agencies, working in partnership with the Federal government, are permitted to seek their own solutions to their energy problems.

The Task Force concluded that these deficiencies result, at least in part, from discriminatory practices.

Programs could be made more effective if they were carried out as part of an overall State energy plan.

water policy cost-sharing legislation

True democracy requires the active participation of its citizens in the decision-making process.

The Committee shall make an annual assessment of the progress made in the Federal Government toward assisting women's business enterprise.

I believe that to meet our national energy requirements requires concerted action with all levels of government working in partnership.

We must work collaboratively with our state and local leaders to tackle challenges like gasoline shortages.

To help insure that the actions ordered above are carried out in an effective manner, I hereby establish the Interagency Committee on Women's Business Enterprise.

nomination of Thomas M. Reavley to be United States Circuit Judge for the Fifth Circuit

A. Philip Randolph helped sweep away longstanding barriers of discrimination and segregation in industry and labor unions, in our schools and armed services, in politics and government.

We will not be pushed back.

His dignity and integrity, his eloquence, his devotion to nonviolence, and his unshakable commitment to justice all helped shape the ideals and spirit of the civil rights movement.

Twenty-five years ago, the legal basis for segregation was struck down in this Republic by the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education.