I want the Senate to have a chance to consider and to vote not only on proposals for minor steps forward. but also on proposals for the major changes that everyone knows are needed. We are told that if we make any major changes in the McCarranWalter Act this late in the session. they will be blocked in the House. I know that we cannot control the actions of the House. or of the House Immigration Subcommittee. or of its chairman. But I think we ought to do our duty as we see it and at least to face the issuenot merely the fringes of the issue. but the central issue involved here. There is pending before the Senate on the calendar. a bill for the relief of the sheepherding industry. and my amendment was originally designed as a substitute for that bill. There is now pending a bill making provision for the admission of certain orphans into our country. I am for that bill. This sheepherders bill and the war orphans bill are the only immigration measures which the Senate Judiciary Committee has seen fit to report. of all the major proposals for immigration reform that are and have been pending before that committee. I wish to address a few remarks to the sheepherders bill and the relationship of that bill to my amendment. even though that is not the pending bill. But it soon will be.
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