Maxine Waters: “I certainly appreciate all of the work the gentlewoman has put in, to not only waive the statute of limitations, that…”

“I certainly appreciate all of the work the gentlewoman has put in, to not only waive the statute of limitations, that took tremendous work to get done, but the support that the gentlewoman has given with the class action lawsuit, the support that the gentlewoman has given to the Members of the Congressional Black Caucus and others who have been involved in all of this. Additionally, along with the two ideas of trying to get interest when there has been a delay and trying to get more money to have more contractors, the last amendment that I had would be a transfer of funds from the position of Special Assistant to the Secretary for Civil Rights to a newly created position of Assistant Secretary of Civil Rights. Now, this is very simple. What we have actually in the Department of Agriculture is a violation of the EEOC law, because what you have is you have a position, and in that position they not only are trying to supposedly do the work of the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Agriculture, they handle personnel for Agriculture and some other kinds of things that put them in direct conflict. This idea would simply have a position of Assistant Secretary of Civil Rights that we would request so that we will have a way by which the complaints and the bottlenecks can be addressed at the highest levels so that we can get this behind us once and for all. I do not know of anybody who is opposed to getting this done.”