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Bill Lee: Yes. Absolutely. If you don't have the facts, if you don't have the data, how do you know, first of all, that there is…

On the recordApril 13, 2016
Yes. Absolutely. If you don't have the facts, if you don't have the data, how do you know, first of all, that there is an issue and a problem of exclusion? Secondly, oftentimes people hire people and work with people whom they are familiar with. There are some systemic issues that, unless you have the data, you don't know what these systemic issues are. So that is absolutely essential. That is why we continue to ask tech companies to release their data and to really be transparent. So you have to know what the issues are and what the problem is before you can look at how to rectify it and how to move forward. So I think that many employees and many corporate officials want to do the right thing. They just have not done the right thing, and they are trying to begin to understand what to do next. So Future Forum, the Congressional Black Caucus, our Tri-Caucus, all of us here, our Dem Caucus, have really been working hard to try to get this movement forward.
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Bill Lee
Republican · Tennessee
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Apr 13, 2016

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