I have a couple of questions I would like to ask. First. what are the rules of the House and what are the rules of the committees we are talking about? The distinguished chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary I know is interested in immigration reform. So am I. I would like to see some changes made in the WalterMcCarran Act. particularly in respect of the national origins system. an infamous base for that act. And yet here I have been a Member for almost 6 years. have introduced omnibus reform legislation. and many Members on my side have done the same. and yet nothing has happened. I join with the other gentlemen in the respectful statements about our late colleague. Mr. Francis Walter. And yet in the Committee on Judiciary we never saw any basic revisions of the immigration laws. So my question is this. What are we talking about here? Does the Joint Committee on Immigration under the rules have jurisdiction over substantive revisions of the immigration laws? If so. does the gentleman from Ohio intend to do something about it?
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