Speech #970133606

Mr. President. I am pleased to join with my distinguished colleague from Wyoming . chairman of our Subcommittee on Immigration and Refugee Policy. in expediting consideration today of H.R. 4327. The Immigration and Nationality Act Amendments of 1981. Except for a few modifications. this bill is substantially the same as the companion bill we reported unanimously out of the subcommittee earlier this year. as well as to S. 1763. the immigration efficiency bill we reported out of the full Judiciary Committee last year. I strongly support this bill because it brings some urgently needed remedial reforms to our immigration law. It improves the efficiency of the Immigration and Naturalization Service. It eliminates unnecessary paperwork. It eliminates useless reporting requirements. And it will save several million tax dollars every year. Like my bill last year. this bill is strictly remedial in character and narrow in scope. It does not attempt to deal with the overall immigration reforms proposed by the Select Commission on Immigration and Refugee Policy or the Reagan administrationwhich are now under active review in our subcommittee as well as in the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration. Although this bill does not go as far as the bill I moved out of committee last year. I am confident we can deal with these additional reforms in the context of the bill we are drafting based upon the Select Commissions recommendations.