America is truly a better place thanks to PETE RODINO. As both a member and later chairman of the powerful House Judiciary Committee. he was responsible for both writing and securing passage of most major civil rights bills approved by Congress. He drafted the fair employment practices provision of the historic 1964 Civil Rights Act and a year later was chief House manager of the Johnson administrations immigration and reform law that eliminated the national origin quota system that had been the basis of American immigration policy for more than 30 years. In 1966 he served as floor manager of this landmark Civil Rights Act of 1966. To many Americans.
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