But like them. he believed in all the people. and did not set himself above anyone. He brought people up to his level by treating them as If they had always been there. For many years. he served as the ranking member of the House Subcommittee on Immigration. To some people. this seemed incongruous. perhaps even threatening. Here was a man whose ancestors had settled in long before the Revolution making policy on immigration. But perhaps it was this perspective that let him understand Just how much America is an immigrant Nation. and how much immigrants continue to contribute. Despite the traditional hostility between the Irish and the English. Ham was probably honored and loved by more Irish groups back in the Hudson Valley than any of us who can trace our ancestry back to Ireland.
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