Excerpt from Environmental Protection Agency Cabinet Elevation, Environmental Equity Issues: Hearing Before the Legislation and National Security Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session; April 28, 1993 Mr. Conyers. My congratulations to you for a fine opening state ment, Ms. Velaz nez. We are please now to recognize the deputy whip in the House, my colleague and dear friend John Lewis, member of the Ways and Means Committee, and a civil rights and human rights leader of several decades. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.