President. I take the floor today to urge the broadest possible support for the Jackson amendment to S. 2620. the bill which would grant the top U.S. treatment to the U.S.S.R. and several other countries. The amendment. of which I was one of the 11 original cosponsors. would prevent Russia from receiving the mostfavorednation status until the United States determines that all Russian citizens can emigrate freely and are not burdened with more than a normal tax on emigration or on the visas or other documents required for emigration. Russia wants a favorednation status on trade with the United States and at the same time tries to extort money from American Jews to free relatives and friends inside the Soviet Union. We cannot put our stamp of approval on that kind of slave trade.
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