Chairman William Langer of the Senate Judiciary Committee said today that he has received no White House request to consider amendments to the McCarran-Walter Immigration Act.
Senate Republican leader Robert A. Taft announced today that the Judiciary Committee is ready at any time to consider changing the Act but he points out that there has been no discussion of proposed changes at White House conferences of legislative leaders with President Eisenhower.
President Eisenhower and Sen. John Bricker today discussed Bricker’s proposed Constitutional amendment designed to prevent Senate ratification of such international agreements as the United Nations Convention on Human Rights and Genocide. The Bricker resolution has been opposed by major Jewish organizations.
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