Mr. Speaker. on January 3. 1961. I introduced H.R. 37. a bill to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act so as to provide that the base year for determining any quota shall be 1950. to provide that the unused annual quota of any quota area be made available for use in quota areas where the annual quota is oversubscribed. and for other purposes. There are six sections in this bill. the first section amends section 201 of the Immigration and Nationality Act and deals with the updating of the base quota from 1920 to 1950. and adds a new subsection which empowers the President to reallocate unused quotas in such portions as he may direct. and to such areas as he may designate. Under existing law. quotas allocated to each country are onesixth of 1 perA669 cent of the number of inhabitants whose national origins were attributable to the various countries according to the 1920 census. The proposed amendment to base the allocation of quotas on the 1950 rather than the 1920 census would give the countries of southern Europe a proportionately greater share in the allocation of quotas.
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