Speech #920286907

Speaker. on September 19. the Supreme Soviet will meet to ratify a schedule of fees. ranging from $5.000 to $37.000. for each Jewish person with a higher education who wants to go to Israel. I feel it is very important that the Congress of the United States show its strong and determined support of Soviet Jews before that date. I want the Soviet Union to know that their restrictive emigration policy will cause this Congress to extensively scrutinize any proposed SovietAmerican trade pacts. I want the leader of the Soviet Union to know that the Congress must amend the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 and take other substantial legislative steps before expanded SovietAmerican trade can take place. If the Soviet Union wishes to trade with the United States. I believe it is appropriate for the U.S. Congress to demand that Soviets honor the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights and permit the free unhindered emigration of Soviet Jewish citizens.