10/26/2009
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"Mr. Chairman, this is an important hearing to be held."
"I take that as the functionally equivalent to affirmative action, which I enforced as a part of the 1964 Equal Employment Opportunity Act."
"We finally got to 1968--Fair Housing Act--when there was the great tragedy of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr."
"We cannot do anything on the weekend, but at the very least, we should not be cutting them or reducing what they receive during those five days."