Mr. Speaker. passage of the resolution before us today will not be the first action this House has taken to ease the plight of Soviet Jews. In 1971 I cosponsored H.R. 6698. a bill to provide 30.000 additional special visas for Soviet Jews who wished to emigrate to the United States. After considerable pressure by the Judiciary Committee the Attorney General agreed in October 1971 to invoke his special "parole" authority to admit Soviet Jews into the United States regardless of whether any refugee visas were available. This was an important demonstration. America would continue to open its arms to the oppressed religious minorities of the world. in the best tradition of religious freedom and human compassion.
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