In my reading of editorials. news stories. and the comments of those who have taken great interest in the bill. it has seemed to me that many persons who have been its severest critics have not. in fact and in truth. read the bill. As a member of the Committee on the Judiciary. I participated in reporting the bill. realizing that for 3 or 4 years. even before I came to the Senate. there were those in the Department of State. the Department of Justice. and other departments. and also members of the Committees on the Judiciary of both the Senate and the House. who had labored very diligently and faithfully to try to perfect a codification of the immigration laws of the United States in order to place our country in a better position to deal with immigration problems. and likewise to put us in the best light possible among the peoples of the world. Yet critics of the bill have heralded to the world that it is a bad bill and should not be passed. For my part I know of very few specific particulars in which the bill could be said to be in any respect one which ought not be passed. Of course. I realize that in a body such as the Senate. or in a body such as the House of Representatives. there are always differences of opinion. But the fact remains that the bill is a product of several years work. in which agencies of our great Government have participated with agencies of Congress. in order to be able to submit to Congress a bill codifying the immigration laws of the United States. so that people all over the world. who might wish to use them. cou!d tell what the law is and has been. Mr. President. all over America there has been great misrepresentation and distortion of the bill. more than I have noticed with respect to any other bill during the short time I have been a Member of the Senate.
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