Mr. Chairman. this is a task of great satisfaction for me. as well as for scores of other Members of this House who have carried on the fight for many years to strike the national origins quota provisions from our immigration laws. I have been introducing legislation for this purpose since I was first elected to this House nearly 13 years ago. But there is one Member among us whose cause this is more than it is anyone elses now serving in Congress. I speak. of course. of the distinguished chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary. whose name is on the bill we are now considering. Our colleague from New York. EMANUEL CELLER. was here when the national origins quota. system was adopted more than 40 years ago. He fought against it then and he has fought against it continuously ever since. The CellerLehman bill. which was first introduced over a decade ago. set the pattern for the pending bill.
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