However, as of recent, this policy has come under great fire. Senator Dole introduced S. 1085(Rep. Charles Canady of Florida also proposed this bill), a bill known as “Equal Opportunity Act of 1995” which would make all forms of affirmative action undertaken by the federal government on the basis of race, color, national origin, and gender unlawful. It would also prohibit federal civil rights enforcement agencies from seeking or agreeing to administrative or judicial orders prescribing affirmative action to remedy proven instances of discrimination that violate federal law or the constitution. However, neither the House or the Senate have progressed on the Dole- Canady bills, but Senator Phil Gram of Texas has taken the essence of the Dole Bill and attached it as an

Civil liberties are the personal rights and freedoms that the federal government cannot abridge, either by law, or judicial interpretation. During the civil rights movement, the Supreme Court ruled that racially discriminatory practices are unconstitutional, and laws were created in order to end and compensate the members of the previously disadvantaged group. These legislations didn’t do much to secure the economic equality of those who suffered. Many people in the civil rights movement saw the economic and social disparity between the African Americans and whites and just another form of discrimination and began calling for equal employment opportunities. The government responded by enforcing anti discrimination laws and by adopting affirmative action programs, which required employers to take special measures to recruit, hire, train, and upgrade members of groups that have suffered harm from past discrimination. Affirmative action is needed to make previously excluded groups of people more competitive in economic and professional life.

In 1991, President Bush and Congress appointed a 21-member Federal Glass Ceiling Committee to help identify the barriers that black the advancement of people of color and women into decision-making policies. In March when the committee reported back, this was what they had to say: “Today’s American labor force is gender and race segregated- white men fill most top management positions in corporations.” The U.S. Su

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