Mr. Speaker. no one in our time has had a greater impact on the laws of our land than EMANUEL CELLER. retiring this year after 50 years of service in the House and 22 years as chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. He has served under 9 Presidents and presided over the passage of 400 laws. including such landmark legislation as abolition of the nationalorigins formula in the immigration law. the CellerKefauver Antimonopoly Act. and four amendments to the ConstitutionPresidential disability. Presidential vote for the District of Columbia. the antipoll tax. and the 18yearold vote. First elected to Congress in 1922 and representing his home district of Brooklyn ever since. EMANUEL CELLER has brought his tremendous vigor. wit. and wisdom to bear on all the monumental issues and events of the last half centurythe depression and New Deal of the 1930s. the rise of fascism and World War II. the cold war. and the Korean war. Vietnam. immigration law reform. and the breakup of harmful monopolies. Through it all. he has retained that precious quality of youth. the ability to see and the courage to act upon needed change. As he once put it himself.
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