Speaker. I rise today to join my colleagues here and throughout the world in both a tribute and a protest: A tribute to the courage of a single extraordinary woman and a protest against the policies of a government that has tried in vain to silence her. It has been 11 years since Ida Nudel. whom I "adopted" in 1980. first applied for a visa that would allow her to leave the Soviet Union. so that she might practice the Jewish faith freely and in peace. In those 11 years she has been forced to endure the most cruel harassment. abuse. and finally. imprisonment. But she has kept her faithand today it is vital that we show our faith in her.