Senator Douglas proposed using revenues from offshore oil reserves for the payment of better salaries for teachers and for general Federal aid to education. In 1965. after a struggle of more than a decac.!. the first broad aid to primary. secondary. and higher education was passed by the Congress. Immigration. Senator Douglas first drafted legislation to liberalize the Nations immigration laws in 1953. Earlier he had fought passage of the restrictive McCarranWalter immigration bill. In 1965. after a prolonged legislative battle. a more equitable immigration law was passed. Housing: As a member of the Housing Subcommittee of the Senate Banking Committee. Senator Douglas was the pnncipal sponsor of most of the important housing legislation in the last decade.
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