Speech #690245765

If anybody is "playing politics." is it those of us who are standing by our former action and that of Congress and the President. and asking him to go forward. as he and Congress then agreed that he should go forward? Or is it those who are changing the law to accommodate certain groups and to shield the President from possible political consequences which might result from his performance of the duty which he and a large majority of Congress. including a majority of his own party. said he should perform? I breach no mans confidence and violate no propriety In expressing the wellfounded opinion that a majority of the House Committee on Immigration and Naturalization did not at heart favor the passage of Senate Joint Resolution 152. suspending the nationalorigins provisions. Five members of that comnmittee belonging to the political minority voted against the suspension. One majority member. the gentleman from Tennessee . next in rank to the chairman. voted against Senate Joint 5650.) While Senate Joint Resolution 152 was under consideration on the floor of the House. the gentleman from Illinois offered amendments proposing to further reduce the quota.