I leave the discussion of the technical aspects of this bill in the capable hands of my colleagues who have lived with this legislation during the last several months and I will confine myself to my convictions on some basic aspects of the bill. On Wednesday a bipartisan group of Members of this body briefly visited the cities of New York and Philadelphia to see at first hand the appalling contrast of the existing conditions and a few of the publichousing projects. This was not my first visit to slum areas. but I can assure you that in all my visits to refugee camps in the Middle East and in western Europe. I have never witnessed such inhuman sanitary conditions as exist in the slums within 220 miles of this Nations Capital. One of my colleagues who visited the DP camps in Germany stated that none of the conditions he had seen abroad equalled those of the slums of New York and Philadelphia.