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handle is hein.cbhear/fdsysafsi0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUT-ENTICATED US. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION GP COMMERCE, JUSTICE, SCIENCE, AND RE- LATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2008 THURSDAY, MAY 3, 2007 U.S. SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, Washington, DC. The subcommittee met at 10:03 a.m., in room SD-192, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Hon. Barbara A. Mikulski (chairman) pre- siding. Present: Senators Mikulski, Shelby, and Alexander. EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION STATEMENT OF NAOMI CHURCHILL EARP, CHAIR STATEMENT OF SENATOR BARBARA A. MIKULSKI Senator MIKULSKI. Good morning. The Subcommittee on Com- merce, Justice, Science of the Appropriations Committee will come to order. As we said in the beginning of the year, our themes are innovation, security, and accountability. This morning, this subcommittee will focus on an agency who has one of probably the most important missions within the Gov- ernment in addition to security, which is the enforcement of our laws against employment discrimination. This hearing will be an oversight hearing as related to what is needed to be sure the agen- cy is able to fulfill its mission. I would have never dreamed many years ago that I would be able to be here as the appropriator for the Equal Employment Oppor- tunity Commission (EEOC). It would have been a dream well be- yond my wildest imagination. Over 40 years ago, I was a young so- cial worker who had heard the call of a gifted President named Jack Kennedy asking not what you can do for your country but what your country can do for you, and responded to that call by fighting the war on poverty and being very active in my own com- munity in the area of civil rights. Baltimore was a tough town. It had a northern economy but a southern social structure. It was a segregated town and as part of great leadership, the home of where the NAACP is headquartered, the home that gave us Thurgood Marshall, the Mitchell family, like Juanita and of course, Mr. Mitchell, the 101st Senator himself. We did marches and we sang, but we knew that marches and singing didn't always open the doors. They were to get the attention to open the doors. (1)