I have offered bills as I have said repeatedly to my colleagues in the RECORD. in this well. if I have gotten up often. if I have been critical and if I have said so of fundamental policies and programs. I have also always offered suggestions. either through resolution or a bill or an amendment. And for over 18 years. well more than that. because 1965 was the famous day in August that the Congress approved and sent to the President. who. with great fanfare. went and signed the bill at the foot of the Statue of Liberty. the great immigration law that was supposed to end every problem in I got up right here in that seat and was the only voice raising an objection to an amendment offered then by a Minnesota Representative. for the first time placing a quota on Western Hemisphere countries. I asked him the rationale. He said. "We want to treat every country equally." I said. and this is all in the RECORD. it is not what I am saying now. an afterthought. 1 said. "Do you mean you want to put Mexico and the United States. or United States.
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