It is clear that this is the wrong time and the wrong legislative procedure for the House to be considering as an amendment that which results. principally. in the population control policies of the Chinese Government. The bill under consideration. as the gentlewoman from California has suggested. has a limited purpose. and that is to adjust the status of certain Chinese nationals who are in the United States. and to permit them to stay in the United States until the political turmoil in China has abated. At no time during the consideration of this measure by the Subcommittee on Immigration. Refugees. and International Law. or the full committee of the Committee on the Judiciary. was the matter of population control policies of the Chinese Government raised in any fashion. Accordingly. we have no legislative record on which to base this policy. It would be a mistake for the House to take a position in such a matter without having had the opportunity for the appropriate committee of Jurisdiction to do a thorough and careful review of the issue.
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