I am today introducing. with my colleague from New York. Mr. HALPERN. and 41 cosponsors from both parties in the House. the Soviet Jewish Refugee Assistance Act of 1972. In December of last year we received the very welcome news that the Soviet Union had released in that month alone more than three times as many Jewish emigrants as it had released in all of 1970. Since December. the release by the Soviet Union of Jewish emigrants has continued at an unprecedented rate. Mr. Speaker. many of us in the House have decried the discriminatory and repressive treatment of Soviet Jews by the Soviet Government. and have urged the Soviet Union to open the Iron Curtain to allow these citizens to leave for Israel.
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