Speech #840146231

I feel very strongly that. while the immediate cases may not be crucial. the issues involved are important. Under the circumstances. it seems to me we might well defer action until the Members of this House have more opportunity to consider these issues. After all. the Immigration Service is. by General Swings own testimony. still flourishing. even though these two jobs have been hanging fire for almost 2 years and even though they have been without the services of these two generals for the better part of a year. This being so. it does not seem that a little longer wait. while * we study the problems raised. would be disastrous. What are these problems? Well. if I understand correctly. they look like this. Here are two top jobs in the Immigration Service that have been in a state of uncertainty for almost 2 years. jobs that have been traditionally held by experienced career men of the Service. According to General Swing. nobody can fill them except Generals Partridge and Howard. And in order to put them into the jobs. he has held the jobs vacant. he has evaded the spirit and letter of the law governing hiring of consultants. he has repeatedly come back to the Congress and asked us to excuse them from * the very clear law. passed by the Congress to prevent just this kind of situation.