Mr. Speaker. it is a pleasure for me to join a number of my distinguished colleagues who. under the leadership of my good friend and outstanding public servant from New York have introduced legislation to revise our immigration and naturalization laws. Ever since coming to Congress. I have sought to sponsor and fight for legislation which would revamp existing statutes in the most sensible way. Never before. however. have I been more pleased with legislation than I am with the present comprehensive bill. which will overhaul the quota system. abolish the national origins basis. and set in motion a number of reforms that are worthy of this great Nation. As the son of parents born on a foreign soil. I feel that the implicit improvements contained in this legislation will right the number of inequities that have plagued our Nation.
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