Under the annulmentbyresolution technique. Congress may override administrative adjudications. For example. the Alien Registration Act of 1940. ch. 439. 120(e). 54 Stat. 672. authorized the Attorney General to suspend the deportation of aliens to avoid hardship to resident dependents. Suspensions for more than six months could be set aside by concurrent resolution of the two Houses. This provision was repeated for certain suspensions In the 1952 revision of the immigration laws. Immigration and Nationality Act. ch. 5. 244(b). 66 Stat. 216 (1952). A later Act authorized the Attorney General to change the status of up to fifty persons from temporary to permanent residence. subject to disapproval by resolution of either House. 8 U.S.C. 11254(c) (1970). These provisions are discussed in Ginnane. supra note 4. at 58283. and J.
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