In the Congress. there is a strong coalition of us who are working to force the administration to insist on the rights of Soviet Jewry. Last year. at the time of the Leningrad trial of nine Jews. and after my talking to the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. to then Speaker McCormack. and to then Majority Leader CARL ALBERT. we brought to the floor and passed House Resolution 1336. which condemned religious persecution in the Soviet Union. That resolution urged the Soviet Union to allow full and free exercise of religion and culture by all Jews. and it urged the Soviet Union to allow those citizens who wished to emigrate to do so. And that resolution. putting the Congress on record. helped to sustain and increase world pressure. Today. in the Congress. my resolution (H.
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