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Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Supreme Court of the United States should improve its employment practices with regard to hiring more qualified minority applicants to…

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Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Supreme Court of the United States should improve its employment practices with regard to hiring more qualified minority applicants to serve as clerks to the Justices.

Introduced: March 11, 1999 Introduced by: Meeks, Gregory W. Democratic · New York See on congress.gov
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Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Agreed to (House)
Mar 18, 1999
Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property.
Mar 11, 1999
Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Mar 11, 1999
Introduced in House
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that: (1) the Supreme Court should move in an expeditious manner to improve its employment practices with regard to hiring more qualified minority and women applicants to serve as clerks and should implement recruiting procedures to ensure that diversity is emphasized and not undermined; and (2) the inferior courts of the United States will follow the lead of the U.S. Supreme Court by improving their employment practices and recruiting procedures to include more minority and women law clerks.

What's happening now March 18, 1999

Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property.

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 Committees of jurisdiction 2
 Cosponsors 3
All 3 Democratic 3
D
Norton, Eleanor Holmes
District of Columbia · Mar 11, 1999
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Schakowsky, Janice D.
Illinois · Mar 11, 1999
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Velázquez, Nydia M.
New York · Mar 11, 1999
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H. Res. 111: Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Supreme Court of the United States should improve its employment practices with regard to hiring more qualified minority applicants to serve as clerks to the Justices.. 106th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/106-HRES-111/
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"H. Res. 111: Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Supreme Court of the United States should improve its employment practices with regard to hiring more qualified minority applicants to serve as clerks to the Justices.." 106th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/106-HRES-111/.
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H. Res. 111, 106th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/106-HRES-111/.
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