I want to know what priority you intend to place on the Civil Rights Division within the Department of Justice.
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Cardin questions the prioritization of the Civil Rights Division.
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I support that, but whether we will ever get to that point, my concern is it is going to be years down the road, and we are going to have another Moldova and another Georgia.
It is important that we, as a country, recognize that when we exclude parts of our society we are actively undermining the social, political, and economic potential of our country.
Modernizing the Department has taken on greater urgency--from finally completing renovations at main state and our embassies abroad to sustaining the Department's diverse workforce.
if this program continues to get watered down or taken away, given the fact that discrimination still exists in America, if this program goes away it would even make it more difficult for small businesses, minority businesses, women-owned businesses to achieve any kind of success.





