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Extensive hearings were held by both the House and Senate Committees on the Judiciary on the administration proposals contained in S. 500. and the original H.R. 2580. but the testimony received in those hearings has little relationship to this new bill which is before the Senate today. As a matter of background. I feel that I should advise the Senate of the immigration matters which have been before the Committee on the Judiciary in this session of the Congress. By doing this. I feel that the Members of the Senate will readily discern the hasty manner In which the present version of an immigration bill has evolved. The divergent views represented by the proposals before the committee. in my opinion. illustrate the confusion which is present in the continuing effort to destroy the present quota system. There were pending before the Subcommittee on Immigration and Naturalization 11 measures introduced in the Senate which would have modified in some manner our immigration or naturalization laws. Three of these proposals. namely. S. 500the administration bill. S. 436. and S. 1093. represented the continuing assault upon the national origins quota system as embodied in the Immigration and Nationality Act. Later on. I intend to discuss more fully the implications of H.R. 2580.