The continuing double standard!
Members of Congress have set themselves apart as an untouchable elitist group!
They are exempt from the new health care mandates!
They are exempt from social security contributions!
I think their exempt from the human race!
Most of them are Lawyers – need I say more?
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POLITICO
Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle took Rand Paul to task when he suggested earlier this year that Title II of the 1964 Civil Rights Act shouldn’t apply to private businesses.
But a new report from Congress’s Office of Compliance notes that Congress has never applied the provision to itself.
“The OOC Board of Directors has taken the position that the rights and protections afforded by Titles II and III of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 against discrimination with respect to places of public accommodation should be applied to the legislative branch,” OOC officials wrote in the report
Title II prohibits discrimination or segregation on the basis of race, color, religion or national origin in access to public accommodations, including hearing rooms, lecture halls, retail shops and restaurants — all accommodations the public uses on Capitol Hill. Title III dictates that these same standards be applied to state and local governments…
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0710/39831.html#ixzz0u7nvn8jx
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