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On the debit side of congressional action were matters of extreme importance to the welfare of our Nation. With many of my colleagues. I am extremely disappointed that the 84th Congress was not able to achieve action to revise and amend the discriminatory and arbitrary McCarranWalter Immigration Act of 1950 and to liberalize the Refugee Relief Act of 1953. I regret that the Housepassed bill to increase rates and liberalize pensions for veterans died in the Senate and that an antilabor coalition of Republicans and Dixiecrats discouraged consideration of revisions to the TaftHartley Act in its restriction of the labor movement. It is a particular blot on the record of the 84th Congress that the same coalition of Republicans. opposed to a Federalaid program. and Dixiecrats of the South. with defiance of Supreme Court decisions its aim. combined to defeat the school construction program.