Andy Harris: “I thank the gentlewoman from Colorado for offering this amendment. There is one thing the Federal Government should not…”

“I thank the gentlewoman from Colorado for offering this amendment. There is one thing the Federal Government should not do when it has a $2 trillion deficit, and that is do duplicative things in one department. There already is an Office of Civil Rights in the U.S. Department of Agriculture. There is no need for an Equity Commission. Oh, but that is right, we have got to get the word ``equity'' in there somewhere. I suggest maybe we should go back and just rename the Office of Civil Rights. It is cheaper, and with a $2 trillion deficit, that is probably what we ought to do.”