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8A OOO NEWS/^e C^atlotte.^oKt Thursday, November 9, 2006 Issues of importance to blacks may find receptive audience Continued from page 7A the House Judiciary Committee, Charlie Rar^el (D-N.Y.) of the Ways and Means Committee, Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) of the Homeland Security Committee, Alcee Hastings (D-Fla.) of the House Intelligence Committee and Juanita Mllender-McDonald (D-Calif.) of the House Administration Committee. All are all poised for chair manships. Under the new Democratic order, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Cahf.) is set to become the first female Speaker of the House, replac ing Dennis Hastert (R-Dl.). Former CBC chairman Rep. Jim Clybum (D-S.C.) is slat ed to replace Rep. Roy Blunt fR-Mo.) as minority whip. At least 15 sxibcommittee chairmanships could also go to members of the CBC, but Chairman Mel Watt (D-N.C.) sounded a note of caution. “We can be a lot more aggressive than we Ijave been,” says Watt. ‘You may not see immediate results, but I think you’ll start to see some [votes] on some of those issues.” Watt says a major focus will be placed on the war in Iraq, and what he describes as a new level of “transparency and oversight” of President Bush, ‘We will be asking questions about the alloca tion of resources and the pri orities of our country,” he says. He said Democrats will ■ move swiftly to increase of the minimum wage, with a vote hkely within the first 30 days. Watt says. “There will be an up or down vote on the minimum w^e and I think it win pass. That’s a concrete thing that I think we’re going to see.” But that’s not enough says TJ-niversity of M.arylaii.cl Walters. “The criminal justice issues have not been dealt with. Half of everyone locked up in America is black. That really begs the revocation of “Three Strikes You’re Out,’ and mandatory minimum sen tencing and doing something with drugs and dn^-sentenc- ing programs and the whole series of the complex criminal justice issues that are feeding the incarceration binge even though crime ' has gone down,” says Walters. “So, it’s issues like these that I’m talking about that’s critically impacting on our community that we need to raise up in a very forceful way...The war is not goii^ to take up all their time.” Walters is worried that presidential politics might comphcate things for House ieaders- “They are not going to want to deal with issues that have greater specificity to the Afiican-American communi ty, primarily because they are going to be positioning them selves for 2008,” he esxplains. “So many of the agenda items that they’re going to highlight are going to be the agenda items that they think will get them a Democratic president elected.” he says. “Our issue is whether we are sympathet ic to that and tuck our tails or whether or not we mobilize and push our issues forward so that tile nominee in 2008 understands what that agen da is about.” Melissa Nobles, president of the National Conferaice of Black Political Scientists, says if Repubhcans retain control of the Senate, which might not be decided for weeks, Democratic gains in the House might be neutral ized. 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