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Maxine Waters: “Mr. Thompson, are you referring to what is known as the crack report labeled Civil Rights at the United States…”

On the recordFebruary 24, 1998
Mr. Thompson, are you referring to what is known as the crack report labeled Civil Rights at the United States Department of Agriculture, where there is documented discrimination of the documented filing of claims that went unaddressed where the Secretary of Agriculture, Mr. Glickman, and everybody else agreed that the Civil Rights Department had literally been dismantled and that the complaints had not been worked on; all of that in this report. Is this the report that you are referring to?
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Maxine Waters
Democratic · California

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Questioning a colleague about a report on discrimination at the USDA.

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