I thank the Senator from New Jersey. Mr. President. yesterday and today are significant days for the Senate. because during these days the Senate has come to grips with perhaps the worst blight upon our national labor record. the continuing abuses permitted in the field of migrant farm labor. For decades we have allowed hundreds of thousands of migrant farm laborers to pass among us. toiling in our Nations fields. harvesting our Nations crops. These people and their children have been denied virtually all of the protections. safeguards. and minimum standards provided all other groups of Americans. Occasionally some tragedy will briefly bring the situation to national attentionsuch as the suffocation of several unattended small children of migrant laborers in an abandoned automobile. or the death of 30 or 40 itinerant laborers in a traffic accident. But all the while the grim story of abuse and deprivation has continued to unfold. with its continuing harvest of misery. injustice. degradation. and ruined lives. At last. the American people. acting through the Congress. have taken action. Yesterday. the Senate passed four important bills. One provided Federal financial assistance for the States to improve educational opportunities for migrant farm workers and their children. A second bill established a Childrens Bureau to assist the States in providing daycare services for children of these workers. so that they can be cared for while their parents are laboring in the fields. A third bill established a National Advisory Council of Migratory Labor to advise the President and the Congress on all matters requiring attention in this area. And the fourth bill launched a Federal program to assist farmers in providing adequate sanitation facilities for migrant workers. Today we take up two more bills. measures which some consider more controversial. The first would tighten the law with respect to the employment of children under 14 years of age and to protect all children under 18 years of age from hazardous farm employment.