An effort to restore the authority for a proposed commission on civil rights to investigate religious discrimination was made today by Rep. Lester Holtzman of New York before the House Judiciary Committee which is considering the Administration’s civil rights program as reported out of the civil rights subcommittee.
The original administration bill called for the establishment of a civil rights commission to investigate charges of civil rights denials to citizens because of race, color, religion or national origins. But the subcommittee struck “religion” out of the bill in a reported attempt to make the bill less controversial.
Rep. Holtzman introduced an amendment to restore the authority for the proposed bi-partisan civil rights commission to investigate religious discrimination.
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