Mr. Speaker. last Thursday during our consideration of the foreign aid appropriations the gentleman from Ohio . with the very best of motives and intentions. offered an amendment to bar any funds to finance or guarantee investments in any country which charges its citizens more than $50 for the right to emigrate. The gentleman and others argued eloquently that by adding this language the House would utter a "moral outcry" against the reprehensible practice of the Soviet Union in forcing its Jewish citizens to pay as much as $25.000 ransommore than most people in Russia can legally earn or save in a lifetimefor an exit permit to emigrate to Israel or any other country. After very brief debate the amendment was agreed to by voice vote. Both the distinguished chairman of the subcommittee handling the bill.
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