NATION IN BRIEF : WASHINGTON, D.C. : House OKs Plan to Extend Rights Panel
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
The House approved a plan to extend the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights for six months while lawmakers search for a way to end internal bickering that has plagued the panel in recent years. The stopgap measure designed to keep the commission from automatically going out of business at the end of the month won approval 278 to 135 without debate and now goes to the Senate. “They (the commission) have frankly made themselves into a national laughingstock,” Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner Jr. (R-Wis.) said.
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