Speech #910097989

I have been advised. for example. that the Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee has requested administration reports on 124 bills which the committee considers priority legislation. Yet to date the Budget Bureau has cleared and forwarded to the committee only 15 reports. I am sure that you will be hearing more about this in the near future but now I would like to comment on the deplorable lack of cooperation which the Bureau of the Budget has evidenced toward the Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Immigration of which I am a member. In May of 1968. the State Department submitted an executive communication to the Speaker of the House recommending the introduction of legislation to modernize certain provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act relating to nonimmigrants. One of the provisions was to delete a section of the law and take out the word "temporary" from that section so that an alien henceforth be admitted to the United States temporarily to undertake work that may be permanent in nature rather than undertake work which would be limited in nature. Of course. in order to effect such a temporary entry. it Is essential that It be established that Americans are unavailable to do the type of work required.