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legal affairs committee chairman
of the Anti-Defamation League
of B’nai B'rith, sought to con-
vince the president that the bill
would not result in quotas.
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rights bill, has threatened to veto
the current legislation because
he believes it would result in hir-
ing or promotion quotas.
This is also the position of
Agudath Israel of America. But
most major Jewish organizations,
which are members of the 185-
member Leadership Conference
on Civil Rights, support the legis-
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sia and an armed guard at the
Koldyczewo concentration camp
during World War 11.
A major domestic issue in
which Jewish groups have been
involved in Congress is the
lation and deny that it would lead logical outcome since businesses
to quotas. will introduce them to prevent
of an employee to claim job dis-
crimination.
1 The bill also would allow women
and members of religious and
ethnic minorities to receive com-
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expensive law suits.
Jewish groups are also divided
over another bill that Bush has
threatened to veto, the multibillion-
dollar child care bill approved by
both the Senate and House.
Most Jewish groups oppose the
• bill because it would allow child-
care programs in which religious
instruction is given to receive
federal funds as well as to use re-
ligious preferences in hiring
workers and admitting children.
But Orthodox groups, whose
institutions stand to benefit, have
welcomed the legislation.
In another area, U.S. aid to Is-
rael, there has been no effort to
cut the $3 billion in economic and
foreign grants Israel receives an-
nually from the United States.
When in JanuarySenate Minor-
ity Leader Robert Dole (R-Kan.)
suggested cutting aid to Israel
and other major recipients by 5
percent, in order to meet other
foreign aid needs, he was rebuked
by mpst of his colleagues, includ-
ing fellow Republicans.
Seventy senators signed a let-'
ter in February urging Bush to re-
ject any proposal to cut aid to
Israel.
In April, the House approved
$400 million in investment guar- ।
antees to provide housing loans
to thousands of Soviet immigrants
arriving in Israel, The Senate fol-
lowed suit in May. The Bush ad-
ministration is holding up the
legislation, apparently to prevent
it from being used to house
Soviet Jews in the West Bank or
Gaza Strip.
Finally, the Bush administra-
tion has sought to reach out to
the Jewish community. Last win-
ter, Bush attended a Chanukah
celebration at the Old Executive
Office Building, next to the White
House, and participated in a game
of dreidels.
The president also hosted a
White House ceremony at which A
he issued his annual Passover
message. Calling Passover "the
festival of freedom," he hailed
the modem exodus of Soviet Jews
and vowed his continued support
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Civil Rights Act of 1990. Both the pensatory and punitive damages
Senate and House have approved for job discrimination. Up to now,
slightly different versions of the only racial minorities were able
law, which would reverse or to sue for such damages.
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