bobbyw24
07-14-2010, 06:26 PM
Four members of the United States Commission on Civil Rights have sent a letter to Senate leaders urging them to remove a section from the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill, which would impose racial and gender quotas on financial institutions.
Earlier this month Diana Furghtgott-Roth, former chief economist at the U.S. Department of Labor and senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, made news when she highlighted Section 342 of the recent financial reform bill as a provision which changes employment law in the financial sector from outlawing discrimination to creating a quota system.
Commissioners Peter Kirsanow, Ashley Taylor, Gail Heriot, and Todd Gaziano affixed their names to the letter, which charges the Senate with either “consciously or unconsciously” promoting discrimination.
“All too often, when bureaucrats are charged with the worthy task of preventing race or gender discrimination, they in fact do precisely the opposite,” the letter reads. “They require discrimination by setting overly optimistic goals that can only be fulfilled by discriminating in favor of the groups the goals are supposed to benefit.”
The letter continues, “In this case, the bureaucrats are not even being asked to prevent discrimination, but to ensure ‘fair inclusion.’ The likelihood that it will in fact promote discrimination is overwhelming.”
The letter goes on to chastise members of Congress who insert language purely for political gain.
“Some legislators have evidently come to think of women and minorities as just another constituency whose leaders must be brought on board with incentives when major legislation is being considered,” the letter says. “The notion that legislation should include ‘a little something’ for everyone is troubling in any context, but it is especially troubling in the context of race and gender, given the requirements of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution.”
Commissioner Todd Gaziano told The Daily Caller that Section 342, whether it intends to or not, could have dire implications for the financial markets.
“The likely end of creating offices that require these types of racial and gender goals is that it will result in quotas and discrimination,” he said. “There are many existing laws and enforcement mechanisms that already prohibit discrimination. This provision, by contrast, takes affirmative steps to guarantee discrimination.”
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2010/07/14/u-s-commission-on-civil-rights-demands-changes-to-democrats-financial-reform-bill/#ixzz0thqVw64a
Earlier this month Diana Furghtgott-Roth, former chief economist at the U.S. Department of Labor and senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, made news when she highlighted Section 342 of the recent financial reform bill as a provision which changes employment law in the financial sector from outlawing discrimination to creating a quota system.
Commissioners Peter Kirsanow, Ashley Taylor, Gail Heriot, and Todd Gaziano affixed their names to the letter, which charges the Senate with either “consciously or unconsciously” promoting discrimination.
“All too often, when bureaucrats are charged with the worthy task of preventing race or gender discrimination, they in fact do precisely the opposite,” the letter reads. “They require discrimination by setting overly optimistic goals that can only be fulfilled by discriminating in favor of the groups the goals are supposed to benefit.”
The letter continues, “In this case, the bureaucrats are not even being asked to prevent discrimination, but to ensure ‘fair inclusion.’ The likelihood that it will in fact promote discrimination is overwhelming.”
The letter goes on to chastise members of Congress who insert language purely for political gain.
“Some legislators have evidently come to think of women and minorities as just another constituency whose leaders must be brought on board with incentives when major legislation is being considered,” the letter says. “The notion that legislation should include ‘a little something’ for everyone is troubling in any context, but it is especially troubling in the context of race and gender, given the requirements of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution.”
Commissioner Todd Gaziano told The Daily Caller that Section 342, whether it intends to or not, could have dire implications for the financial markets.
“The likely end of creating offices that require these types of racial and gender goals is that it will result in quotas and discrimination,” he said. “There are many existing laws and enforcement mechanisms that already prohibit discrimination. This provision, by contrast, takes affirmative steps to guarantee discrimination.”
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2010/07/14/u-s-commission-on-civil-rights-demands-changes-to-democrats-financial-reform-bill/#ixzz0thqVw64a