In my capacity as a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee. I review. with other members of the committee. budgetary requirements for operations of various Federal departments and agencies. I feel it expedient that we consider the necessity of fundingadministrative costs arising from processing and admitting the increased number of immigrants which will certainly result from the enactment of the proposed legislation. I ask also where the medical specialists are coming from. both here and abroad. to efficiently screen the state of physical and/or mental health of various immigrant applicants who are anticipated as being admissible under the changed wording of the areas of this bill dealing with physical and/or mental health and past history of mental illness? Any person who has ever reviewed court testimony by experts in the field of mental problems. mental health. mental capabil-" ity to judge moral or legal responsibility. mental capacity for safe driving. and related problems. will well wonder what Pandoras box we may be opening. I am advised that the term "mentally retarded" will be substituted for the term "feebleminded" in the exclusion of aliens who are feebleminded to conform to current American usage as in the Mental Retardation Facilities Construction Act of 1963Public Law 88164and the Maternal and Child Health and Mental Retardation Planning Amendments of 1963Public Law 88156.
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