Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding the ongoing need to provide every qualified American with equal access to opportunity in education, business, and employment and the indispensability of Affirmative action programs in securing such equal access.
Latest action · Jun 22, 2005 Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
Progress
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- IntroducedMay 17, 2005
- Agreed to in HouseNot reached
Summary
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that: (1) the Attorney General should undertake to protect and expand equality of opportunity for qualified minorities, disabled persons, and women at every opportunity; (2) affirmative action is a powerful, effective, and necessary tool for achieving such equal opportunity without quotas, and should be used in the public and private sectors to increase diversity and to correct patterns of past and current discrimination; and (3) the President should incorporate affirmative action into the employment, contracting, granting, educational, and program activities of the United States and all its subcontractors and grantees.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Actions 4
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jun 22, 2005Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
- Jun 6, 2005Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.
- May 17, 2005Introduced in House
- May 17, 2005Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues.
- Affirmative action programs
- Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
- Commerce
- Disabled
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Employment of the disabled
- Federal aid programs
- Federal aid to education
- Federal employees
- Government contractors
- Government Operations and Politics
- Higher education
- Labor and Employment
- Minorities in government
- Minority education
- Minority employment
- Subcontractors
- Women
- Women in government
- Women's education
- Women's employment
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- May 17, 2005Introduced in House
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