Civil Rights Groups Call White House Response to Hurricane Katrina a Trojan Horse; Coalition Calls for Congressional Investigation Into Bush Administration's Waiving of Federal Civil Rights Laws in Wake of Hurricanes Katrina, Rita.

AScribe Health News Service, October, 2005

Byline: Leadership Conference on Civil Rights

WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- Leading the effort with nearly 60 other major civil rights and advocacy organizations, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR), the nation's oldest, largest, and most diverse civil and human rights coalition, today called on the president to rescind efforts to gut federal civil rights rules, and on Congress to conduct an investigation into, and hearings on, these attempts.

"Whether or not by design, the administration has used the tragedies of hurricanes Katrina and Rita to waive, bend, and break federal laws that protect our civil rights, worker rights, public health and safety, while suspending rules that help small and minority-owned businesses," said...

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