Mr. Speaker. there are many important issues facing this body and our country at this time. social security. the Voting Rights Act. the failure of our criminal justice system. but aside from national defense and the economy. which have to be the two singly most important issues. I believe that the third most important issue facing us today is the great need to make some changes in our immigration and refugee policy in this country before it continues to the point where we cannot correct the chaos that is there today. There is no particular institution or agency in this Government that is more underfunded. more overworked. more understaffed. than the Immigration and Naturalization Service. I join my distinguished colleague. the gentleman from Kentucky. who a few moments ago asked the President and asked the administration to move in an area that Congress cannot move in and move swiftly to appoint a new Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service. a permanent one. and a coordinator of refugee affairs. We need to move on in that area and we need the support of this administration now to do so.
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