The committee is to be congratulated upon its efficient and thorough study given those complex questions presented to it well as the new proposals and projects submitted through the various agencies for determination. Chairman STEED and his committee are to be commended for the fine results attained in its final presentation for our consideration. The controversial amendment related to the reactivation of the Joint Committee on Immigration and Nationality policy providing an appropriation of $160.000. for specific investigatory purposes. including alleged departures and fraudulent practices on the part of persons in interestboth sponsors in the Congress and othersin accepting moneys for such services against interest. also as a factfnding committee to study the proposals for a new basic immigration act submitted by our martyred President. John F. Kennedy. The opponents allege that the joint committee has no legislative powers or power to investigate except for making policy. and that Subcommittee No. 1 on Immigration of the Judiciary Committee is well equipped to carry on the purposes intended. It has investigatory powers of the subject matter under a resolution passed by the House in January 1963. My bill on immigration. H.R. 3323. introduced on February 4. 1963. rewriting the Immigration Act. is still pending. Its provisions incorporate the administrations recommendations made by the late President John F. Kennedy and President Lyndon B.
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