A good deal has been done to alleviate that. A number of Members on all sides have worked on that. the gentleman from New York from the Committee on Foreign Affairs. who sits on the Republican side. and the gentleman from California here. and a number of others. The chairman of the Subcommittee on Immigration has taken the lead in forging a policy whereby this Congress has effectively been able to bring some pressure to bear to get the administration to reverse that policy. With his support. the support of the chairman of the full Committee on the Judiciary. we are at this point. Again I would repeat none of us think that the ideal way to legislate is for Congress to deal category by category with groups of potential refugees. But it was a series of failures on the part of the administration and some unfortunate politicization that occurred there first which led us to this point. We now have a bill with broad bipartisan support which seems to me to effectively accomplish what ought to be accomplished.
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