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I merely want to remind the gentleman from Michigan. though he is diligent about these matters. this is not an unusual procedure. In my 34 years in the Congress we have during the last waning hours of the Congress considered matters that were urgent matters. where there might have been prejudice to individuals. where serious injury might have occurred. where it might have been not only an act of charity. but an act of justice and equity to take these matters up. During the time that I served as chairman of the Subcommittee on Immigration. we went through the thousands of bills that came before us. We considered them and whether they had any merit and whether they were of a substantial nature that we felt deserved action. I was fully informed of what the subcommittee has done.