"This is not a quota bill," said Ralph Neas, executive director of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights.

"Today the Senate caved," said Wade Henderson, executive director of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights.

Karen McGill Lawson, 56, executive director of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund.

Ralph Neas, executive director of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, said: "There appear to be some serious problems.

"We're still in the information-gathering stage," Ralph G. Neas, executive director of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, said after the meeting.

Ralph G. Neas, executive director of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, said it had ended years of frustration.

Wade Henderson, executive director of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights said the proposition would help determine the future of affirmative action.

There was a strategy to the activity of those first few days, said Ralph G. Neas, executive director of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights.

Ralph Neas, executive director of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, the umbrella lobbying organization, disagreed.

"Diversity of voices, not merely the variety of programming, is what matters," said Wade Henderson, executive director of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights.