Excerpt from Oversight Hearing to Review the Activities of Federal Holiday and Commemorative Commissions: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Census, Statistics, and Postal Personnel of the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session; March 16, 1993 Mrs, king. Chairman Sawyer and distinguished members of the subcommittee, I welcome this opportunity to appear before you and report on the continuing work of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Fed eral Holiday Commission. I have prepared a detailed summary of the work of the Commis sion which I am submitting with my testimony. I am also submit ting a copy of our 1992 annual report on the observance of the King holiday which will illustrate the successes achieved by the Commission. This information will also highlight some of the im portant challenges which remain to be addressed in our efforts to the make the King holiday all it should be. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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