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...Discrimination is just as wrong in Congress as it is anywhere else." That statement from California Democrat Leon Panetta may seem obvious, but it has taken the House almost a quarter-century to accept it. In legislating the 1964 Civil Rights Act and all other laws imposing obligations on employers, Congress made itself exempt. Why? Some members lamely asserted that, well, Congress is "different." Others offered a legalistic excuse: having an executive agency regulate its employment practices would violate the separation of powers...
CONTRIBUTORS: Kurt Andersen, Patricia Blake, Gerald Clarke, Jay Cocks, Richard M. Cohen, John Elson, Pico Iyer, Leon Jaroff, Stefan Kanfer, Michael Kinsley, Charles Krauthammer, Richard Schickel, Mimi Sheraton, John Skow
CONTRIBUTORS: Kurt Andersen, Patricia Blake, Gerald Clarke, Jay Cocks, Richard M. Cohen, John Elson, Pico Iyer, Leon Jaroff, Stefan Kanfer, Michael Kinsley, Charles Krauthammer, Richard Schickel, Mimi Sheraton, John Skow
...This committee was the direct ancestor of the MCAD," writes Leon H. Mayhew in his 1968 study of the commission. "Its function was to carry out investigations and to sponsor and assist educational programs designed to combat discrimination...
CONTRIBUTORS: Kurt Andersen, Patricia Blake, Gerald Clarke, Jay Cocks, Richard M. Cohen, John Elson, Pico Iyer, Leon Jaroff, Stefan Kanfer, Michael Kinsley, Charles Krauthammer, John Leo, Kenneth M. Pierce, Richard Schickel, Mimi Sheraton, John Skow