Russ Feingold: “three years ago tomorrow, in his first address to a joint session of Congress, President Bush declared that racial…”

“three years ago tomorrow, in his first address to a joint session of Congress, President Bush declared that racial profiling is wrong and pledged to end it in America. He then directed his Attorney General to implement this policy. It is now three years later, and the American people are still waiting for the President to follow through on his pledge to end racial profiling. So, today I join with Representative John Conyers, the distinguished ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, in re-introducing the End Racial Profiling Act. We first introduced this bill in 2001, shortly after the President made his pledge and the Attorney General asserted that he would work with us on our legislation. The End Racial Profiling Act would do exactly what the President promised to do: it would ban racial profiling once and for all and require Federal, State, and local law enforcement to take steps to end and prevent racial profiling.”