Speech #760277153

The remaining titles of the code are simply prima facie statements of what the law is. The reference of that bill to the Ways and Means Committee rather than the Committee on first session. 76th Congress. page 637. We now have before us this admittedly huge task that has been performed by the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization. The chairman of the Committee on Rules in his opening remark mentioned that the subcommittee and the committee had been working for months and for years on this codification of the nationality laws. I call the attention of the House to the fact that the bill now before us was introduced on Monday. June 3. and was reported by the standing Committee on Immigration and Naturalization on June 5. I submit to the House. without passing at all on the merits or demerits of this attempt to codify the nationality laws. that we must be careful in the enactment of these various codes else we will. bit by bit and piece by piece. destroy the effectiveness of the United States Code as a whole. I call your attention particularly to the fact that in the bill before us we have this committee taking from United States Code. title V. on the Executive. title VIII on Aliens. title XVIII on the Criminal Code and Criminal Procedure. title XXVIII on the Judicial Code and Judiciary. title XXXIX on the Postal Service. and title XLVIII on Territories and Insular Possessions. various sections of existing law. and bringing them in under this nationality code. which in all probability will eventually constitute title VIII of the United States Code.