Black Caucus Urges Bush to help Close Gap Between Black & White Americans
Saturday, January 29, 2005 at 08:15PM
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President Bush met with the Congressional Black Caucus at the White House yesterday. The New York Times (1/27, Hulse) says the lawmakers presented Bush "with proposals for closing the gap between white and black Americans in health care, employment and education and said they would judge his response by weighing the State of the Union address and federal budget." The Times adds that "about 40 members of the...Caucus pressed the president for more attention to what they see as striking disparities in opportunity between blacks and whites across a broad range of areas." Rep. Mel Watt (D-NC), chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, said the purpose of the meeting was to offer Bush the agenda in hopes that the president will incorporate the plan into his domestic policies and allocate more funds to close disparities in education, employment, health-care, criminal justice, retirement security and foreign policy. Bush "was joined at the meeting by Condoleezza Rice after her confirmation by the Senate as secretary of state. Representative Elijah E. Cummings, Democrat of Maryland, said Ms. Rice, who is the first African-American woman to hold the post, was congratulated by many of the caucus members." The meeting Wednesday marked only the second time since Bush took office in 2000 that the president has met with the 43-member Congressional Black Caucus. The Frontrunner January 27, 2005 and [more] and [more] and [more]
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