Mr. Chairman. I am pleased and proud to bring before the House H.R. 7357. the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1982. This is an important and a highly necessary piece of legislation. Its enactment during this postelection session. the lameduck session of Congress. would be a noteable achievement and would constitute the adoption of landmark legislation. I am proud of this bill and proud to have my name attached to it because it is a fair and a balanced piece of legislation. It is humane and sensitive and at the same time effective. and it is in the words of the New York Times "not nativist. not racist. and not mean." But though the bill carries my name and that of the Junior Senator from Wyoming. Senator SIMPSON. it in fact does not belong to us but belongs to a whole generation of legal scholars. academicians legislators. demographers. and others who have worked on the reform. the sensitive and humane reform. of the Nations immigration policy. This bill could. of course. be called the Rodino bill for if there is. as I said earlier this evening. one person in this country whose ideas are most clearly represented in this bill and who represents the best of legislating skill. it is the gentleman from New Jersey. our distinguished chairman. The bill could be called the McClory bill or the Fish bill for these gentlemen. the gentleman from Illinois. the gentleman from New York. are both Members who served on the Commission headed by the President of my alma mater.
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