Speaker. I was pleased to join as a cosponsor of the bill introduced on December 4. by Congressman MICHAEL A. FEIGHAN. to improve the Immigration and Nationality Act. My cosponsorship is basically intended to help bring the bill to the floor where the House can work its will in taking into account the complications that we recognize are inherent in the present law. Having voted for the 1965 act. I believe that the intent of Congress was to update immigration procedures but not to interfere with the historic immigration pattern to the United States. I believe the law as interpreted and implemented and the results we now perceive were not those truly envisioned by Congress. It is my hope that the Judiciary Committee will give this matter priority attention and the Congress can act on this measure some time in 1970.
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