Senators worry about Bush appointee's commitment to racial diversity [View All]

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http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Senators_worry_about_Bush_appointees_commitment_0730.html

Michael Roston
Published: Monday July 30, 2007




A pair of Democratic senators are criticizing President George W. Bush's pick to head the US Agency for International Development over what they see as her failure to promote racial and ethnic diversity in the US Foreign Service.

Senators Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and Barack Obama (D-IL) expressed their reservations during the Thursday confirmation hearing for Henrietta Holsman Fore to serve as Deputy Secretary of State and head of USAID. Fore's place in the Bush administration drew controversy several years ago due to remarks she made in 1987 in which she seemed to call Latinos 'lazy' and suggested that black employees in a factory she owned preferred dealing drugs to working.