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On the recordFebruary 26, 2018
If you are even thinking about stripping out practice and patterns of discrimination, you are thereby gutting the reason Congress did CRA in the first place.
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Gregory Meeks
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Meeks warns against removing discrimination considerations from CRA, stressing its original purpose.

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