There was never any partisanship in this legislative body where the interests of the United States were involved. In the matters that come before us as Members of Congress. we usually discard all partisanship where the real interests of the country require a cooperative effort. and so. in spite cf the fact that the President was of one political party and the majority of the Iouse was of another. we worked together for one common goal and every bit of legislation necessary for the wellbeing of the masses which was proposed by the administration was energetically pushed through the House. As chairman of the Committee on Immigration I then saw the opportunity of sponsoring legislation to bring about some measure of alleviation to those provisions of the immigration laws which were unnecessarily cruel and not - in the best interests of the United States. I refer particularly to those situations which kept husbands and wives of Amer� ican citizens separated from each other because of the quota situation of the particular country to which the husband or wife might have been chargeable. The same thing was true in the case of many minor children of American citizens.
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