Mr. Speaker. it is with great pleasure that Chairman Mills and I introduce today the "Freedom of Emigration Act" along with over 258 of our colleagues in the House of Representatives from every section of the United States. This measure is designed to restrain trading privileges or "most favored nation treatment" with any nation in EastWest trade until that country ceases its discriminatory emigration policies. This measure most directly affects the Soviet Union which persists in maintaining its extremely harsh and unwarranted education head tax which has already dealt a severe blow to thousands of Soviet Jews wanting only to leave that country. It has been with a great deal of thought that I undertook this effort in the House of Representatives to gather support for this measure. I have been one of the principal House sponsors of EastWest trade.
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