Fairness Issue Quotes
His ethical lapse led to significant reforms.
He was the chairman of the committee and the he had denied the Democrats equal access to witnesses before the meeting in a patently unfair process. When one of the minority members of the committee complained in the open hearing that the process was unfair this was his response. Most majority committee chairmen do not resort to this kind of unfair practice so this was not generally a typical practice but reflected the bitter hyperpartisanship that the House Republicans were engaging in at the time.
In France, poor immigrants tended to be clustered into suburban neighborhoods where few jobs were available, the schools were inferior, recreational facilities were sparse, and there were few opportunities to mix with other French residents. Yet, similar correlations between geography and opportunity have existed in almost all parts of the world with the most obvious reflected in the massive worldwide migration to the cities from the rural areas and countryside which took place in the United States in the 20th century and most other nations in the latter part of that century and the beginning of the 21st. Chances in life have been and are very much determined by geography.
