Only under the joint committee would I have an opportunity for an uninhibited investigation or inquiry. which would give me the unqualified right to hire a competent and dedicated staff and to have the unqualified right of subpena. In the time allotted to me under general debate. I have made abundantly clear the reasons why there is an urgent need for the Joint Committee on Immigration and Nationality Policy. to commence its work at once. I have defined the issues involved. the issues on which every Member will vote today. The responsibility for decision now rests with Members of this House. The basic. overriding issue before the House today is whether Congress will support a fullscale. uninhibited and long overdue study and review of immigration policy as is required by law which Congress passed in 1952. President John F. Kennedy in his last message to Congress the day before his assassination called for $140.000 for the work of the Joint committee.
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