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.He was elected to Congress in 1966 and servedBiographical Sketches 113until 1978.His major committee related to immigration was theJudiciary Committee.He introduced the employer-sanctions ideain 1982 and cosponsored IRCA.Notably, he led the House effortto establish the SCIRP.Dianne Feinstein (1933 )Sen.Dianne Feinstein (D. Calif.) is California s senior senator.She was elected in 1992 and reelected in 2000.She received a B.A.from Stanford University in 1955.Prior to serving in the Senate,she served on California s Women s Parole Board (1960 1966), onthe San Francisco Board of Supervisors (1970 1978).and as mayorof San Francisco (1978 1988).Senator Feinstein serves on severalcommittees important to immigration: Appropriations; Agricul-ture and Rural Development; Interior; Labor and Health and Hu-man Services; Judiciary; Immigration; and Technology, Terrorism,and Government Information.A tough critic of the INS, she hasbeen notably involved in bills to strengthen the Border Patrol andto sponsor increased fees to fund the fencing-in pilot programin the San Diego area.Hamilton Fish Jr.(1926 )Rep.Hamilton Fish Jr.(R. N.Y.) was born to the distinguishedFish family, long active in Republican and New York politics.Hetook his B.A.degree from Harvard in 1949 and an LL.B.fromNew York University in 1957.He served in the naval reservesduring World War II and then as vice consul in the U.S.foreignservice in Ireland.He practiced law from 1957 to 1968 and servedas counsel to the New York Assembly s Judiciary Committee in1961 and as Dutchess County s civil defense director from 1967 to1968.In 1968, he was elected to the U.S.House of Representatives,where he served with distinction until he retired in 1994.Hiscommittee assignments of note were the Judiciary, where he wasthe ranking minority member, and Intellectual Property and Ju-dicial Administration.He made his most notable impact on im-migration law during the debates over IRCA from 1982 to 1986.Amoderate Republican, he played a pivotal role in reaching com-promises enabling passage of IRCA, the Fair Housing Act of 1988,the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, and the 1991 CivilRights Act.114 Biographical SketchesBarney Frank (1940 )Rep.Barney Frank (D. Mass.) took his B.A.from Harvard in 1962and took a J.D.there in 1977.He served in the MassachusettsHouse from 1972 to 1980, at which time he was elected to the U.S.House of Representatives.He serves on Banking and FinancialServices, Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Housingand Community Opportunity (where he is ranking minoritymember), and Judiciary: Immigration and Claims.He is an im-portant advocate of civil rights, civil liberties, and antidiscrimina-tion measures on all immigration bills, and he was instrumental inreaching key compromises on IRCA in 1986 and IMMACT in 1990.Richard Gephardt (1941 )Rep.Richard Gephardt (D. Mo.) received his B.S.degree fromNorthwestern University in 1962.In 1965, he received his J.D.from the University of Michigan.He served in the Air NationalGuard from 1965 to 1971 and was a practicing attorney from 1965to 1977.His political career began with his service as a St.LouisCity alderman from 1971 to 1976.He was elected to the U.S.House of Representatives in 1976.In 1988, he was briefly a candi-date for the Democratic Party s presidential nomination.He hasserved on the powerful Ways and Means Committee and is one ofthe founders of the Democratic Leadership Council.In 1984, hewas elected as chair of the Democratic Caucus.He was the ma-jority leader in the House from 1989 to 1994, and from 1994 to2002 as minority leader.As such, he played a leading role in the1990 IMMACT.As majority leader, he helped establish the HouseDemocratic Policy Committee.He was a leading opponent ofNAFTA.In 2002, he sponsored a bill to enact a new legalization(amnesty) program.Leonard S.Glickman (1962 )Leonard S.Glickman is president and chief executive officer ofthe Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS).He took a B.A.degreefrom the University of Pittsburgh and holds an M.A.degree in in-ternational affairs from American University.Before joining HIASin 1998, he served as executive assistant at the U.S.Office ofRefugee Resettlement in the Department of Health and HumanServices for five years.Prior to that, he was press secretary forGovernor Tom Ridge, currently director of Homeland Security,Biographical Sketches 115and had previously served as minority staff director and legisla-tive assistant for Sen.John Heinz (R. Penn.).He is currently alsochair of Refugee Council USA, a coalition of agencies concernedabout refugee protection.In 1997, he received the secretary ofhealth and human services Award for Distinguished Service, andhe is a five-time recipient of the Administration for Children andFamilies Special Act and Service Award.In 1998, he was honoredby the Kurdish Human Rights Watch with the Friends of KurdsAward for his efforts in the rescue and resettlement of nearly7,000 Kurdish refugees from northern Iraq.Bob Graham (1936 )Sen.Bob Graham (D. Fla.) took his B.A.degree from the Univer-sity of Florida in 1959 and a J.D.from Harvard University in 1962.After working for the Sangra Development Corporation from1962 to 1966, he was elected to the Florida House of Representa-tives, where he served until 1970.He then served in the FloridaSenate from 1970 to 1978.He served as governor of Florida from1978 to 1986, at which time he was elected to the U.S
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