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As the columnist, E.J. Dionne Jr., Cummings represents Maryland's
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sion, the President’s budget would needed to equal 2002 funding. Com has observed. President Bush “ . . . Seventh Congressional District in
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cut funding for job training and munity Oriented Policing assistance is doing all that he can to benefit the the United States House o f Repre
tration proposals that would cut,
employment programs to $713 mil would be slashed - and the Bush eco n o m ic elite s and, through sentatives and serves as Chair o f
level-fund or radically modify many
lion less than the amount that would Administration would also have us stealth, to undercut governm ent’s the Congressional Black Caucus
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maintain 2002 purchasing power. It eliminate the federally-funded Ed commitment to the least fortunate." in the 108th Congress.
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and freeze funding for the Child
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B l a c k H i s t o r y M o n th
Dr. Daniel Hale Williams, perfumed the tint successful heart operation in 1893
M adam e CJ. Walker, first self mode American wom an m illionaire • H ym an 5. Thomas, invented the potato chip, originally
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Court • Yvonne Clark, first woman to earn B.S. in chemical engineering a t Harvard • Louis Armstrong, first to sing in "scat-
ting" style • Otis Boykin, invented guided missile device • lane W right, pioneered several advances in the field o f chemother
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