Mr. Speaker. I join my colleagues in protesting the ransoms exacted from Soviet Jews seeking emigration to Israel. These extortionate exit feesranging from $5.000 to $37.000. fortunes all but unheard of in the Soviet Unionare demanded of each Jew with a higher education who wants to quit Russia for Israel. On September 19. Mr. Speaker. the Supreme Soviet is scheduled to meet to ratify these ransoms. to cloak them in "legality." I want to point out that such a step will mean that the U.S. Congress will examine more closelymuch more closelyour developing trade agreements with the Soviet Union. Jews in the Soviet Union already endure discrimination in virtually every way conceivable.
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