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President. that the opponents of the McCarranWalter bill have by their own acts endorsed 85 percent of theMcCarranWalter bill. because if you pick up the McCarranWalter bill in your left hand and read it against the HumphreyLehman bill in your right hand. you will see. Mr. President. that they have copied paragraph by paragraph. sentence by sentence. word for word. comma for comma. the entire McCarranWalter bill which was a result of 3 years of intensive work by a committee of the Senate and a staff of experts. and then you will see. Mr. President. that at almost every point in which the McCarranWalter bill undertakes to strengthen the enforcement procedures to plug the loopholes and gaps in our present immigration system. those provisions are removed in the HumphreyLehman bill. But. Mr.