Speech #830001735

In comparison. of 1.936 Senate bills and resolutions referred to it. the Committee on the Judiciary acted upon 1.185. leaving 751 Senate bills and resolutions pending. This means that although the committee had to start from scratch in all such cases. action was taken on 63.3 percent of all Senate measures received. Suspensions of deportation by the Attorney General and adjustments of status under section 4 of the Displaced Persons Act. as amended. are. under authority delegated by the Congress. reported to the Congress in groups. but in the committee. each such individual case requires separate investigation. appraisal. and action. At the beginning of the Eightysecond Congress. there were pending in the committee 2.761 cases of suspension of deportation. to which were added 10.529 additional cases submitted since the beginning of the Congress. making a total of 13.290 cases. of which 7.145 were approved. 2.568 were held for further consideration. and 81 were withdrawn by the Attorney General. leaving 3.496 cases in process as of the close of the Eightysecond Congress. At the beginning of the Eightysecond Congress. there were pending 845 cases of adjustment of status under section 4 of the Displaced Persons Act. as amended. to which were added 2.448 additional cases submitted during that Congress. making a total of 3.293 cases. of which 2.216 were approved. 28 were withdrawn by the Attorney General. and 514 were held for further consideration. leaving 535 cases in process. as of July 7. Through July 7. 1952. at the close of the Eightysecond Congress. the committee received 151 executive nominations. of which 41 were Federal judges. 52 were United States district attorneys. 40 were United States marshals. 1 was Commissioner of Immigration and Nat-. uralization. 1 was Assistant Commissioner of Patents. 1 was Attorney General of the United States. 1 was Deputy Attorney General. 2 were Assistant Attorneys General. 2 were Examiners in Chief. Board of Appeals. United States Patent Office. and 10 were members of the Subversive Activities Control Board.