Civil Rights Commission
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Excerpt from Civil Rights Commission: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-Second Congress, Second Session, June 16, 1972 Senator Ervin. In 1957, over my opposition, the Civil Rights Commission came into being. Its objectives were to assess the laws and policies of the Federal Government in regard to denials of equal protection under the law, to report its findings and recommendations to the President within 2 years, and then disappear. It is now 1972, that particular report has never been made, and the Commission is here again asking for large sums of public money and yet another extension. Congress has extended the life of the Commission five times since its inception in 1957. Its permanent staff has grown from 87 in 1959 to 176 in 1972. An additional 40 permanent positions have been requested for fiscal year 1973, and no one knows how many employees it will have by 1978. Amounts appropriated for the work of the Commission have swelled from an original appropriation of $777,000 in 1959 to almost $4 million in fiscal year 1972. It is interesting to observe that when the Commission was subject to 1 - or 2 - year extensions, as they were prior to 1964, increases in appropriations and staff were kept under control. But, as the extensions have become longer, the appropriations and staff have risen in dramatic proportion. The whole experience illustrates the proposition that the longer an agency stays in existence, and the further it gets from congressional review, the more deeply entrenched it becomes and the more extravagant with money. There is nothing more permanent than a temporary Government agency. We are now being asked to extend the Commission for another 5 years which, if done, means that an agency whose demise was expected by 1959 will live to be over 20 years old and presumably even longer. I do not say that there is no problem with constitutional rights or that it is no longer necessary to insure that such rights receive the safeguards of the law. On the contrary, there will always be such a need. I am saying that this should not necessitate the indefinite existence of the Commission at even greater sums of money. I objected to the establishment of the Civil Rights Commission in 1957 and I object to its extension now because it duplicates the activities of other Government agencies charged with investigating and enforcing civil rights statutes and Executive orders dealing with discrimination under the law. The Commission itself has no power to resolve complaints it receives. It must refer them to appropriate agencies for enforcement. The Commission can only conduct studies and make recommendations. Given the limited nature of what the Commission can do and the modest nature of its contributions, it is with some skepticism that I view the proposal to extend further the ambit of the Commissions jurisdiction to a special area of equal protection - that of sex discrimination. Here, in particular, there already exists a considerable bureaucratic framework to investigate and put an end to governmental and private practices which discriminate on the basis of sex. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is charged under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act with enforcing the prohibitions against sex discrimination by employers, labor unions, employment agencies, and apprentice programs. The Civil Service Commission enforces Executive Order 11246 which prohibits sex discrimination in Federal employment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
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