Discretionary powers are somewhat more carefully delineated and restrained. Increased attention is paid to adjustment assistance. and to international fair trade practices. Most favored nation status. and most likely. credit and financial concessions to the Soviet Union. will be contingent on freedom of emigration from that nation. However. serious weaknesses in the bill prevented me fom casting my vote in the Ways and Means Committee to report this legislation to the Rules Committee and the floor of the House. Those reasons include insufficient insistence on fair trade practices. lack of increased equity in international fair labor standards. granting of credit and financial concessions to the Soviet Union without guarantees of freedom of emigration and other basic human rights. plus insufficient attention being paid to the legitimate and increasingly serious concerns of the American workingmanconcerns dealing with his very livelihood. and the economic security of himself and his family. Those briefly are several reasons why I find it difficult. at the present moment. to give my support to the pending. and oftendelayed. trade bill. But Mr.
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