"Thank you so much Mr. Chairman. Throughout history, Americans have fought for and championed civil rights."
"A company, a large company, perhaps a company like Disney or any other employer, aspiring to maybe have about 30 percent of new hires and having a goal of 30 percent of new hires being from diverse ba..."
"What I can say is what is factually accurate around the state of our laws, and that is aspirations are not unconstitutional."
"I think the question here is not whether people can file complaints and charges with the EEOC. It is who is filing them and why, and the aspirations themselves are consistent with our goals."
"When we see institutions of power, and that is reflected in almost any institutional organization of power, and when we even just try to have the basic acknowledgement that it would be good to encoura..."
"I would like to seek unanimous consent to enter into the record this follow-up letter from 21 AGs."
"Thank you so much, Mr. Chairman. Ms. Ocasio-Cortez. I found some of the opening statements quite interesting that we heard from our witnesses here today, plenty of claims being thrown out there."
"It seems to be that the argument is that seeking to have 30 percent of your hires be people of color is anti-White discrimination."
"Aspirations are not antithetical or in any way a violation of Title VII under our Court's precedence..."
"When we see institutions of power... that somehow anti-White discrimination, anti-male discrimination..."
"Suburbs have essentially already begun pursuing a defunding of the police."
"Because Jamaal Bowman dared to speak up for Palestinians."