I would like to thank the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee . for his support of House Concurrent Resolution 100 and his expeditious consideration of this important bill in the committee. I would also like to thank my colleague from Massachusetts . the sponsor of this resolution. for his leadership on this issue. as well as the ranking minority member of the Subcommittee on Human Rights and International Organizations . for his support. The resolution we have before us today is an expression of congressional concern on behalf of the Vashchenko and Chmykhalov families. who have been denied permission to emigrate by the Soviet authorities and are now living in the US. Embassy in Moscow to protest their plight. The resolution calls upon our President to express the concern of our Government to the U.S.S.R. and to allow the family members to remain in the U.S.
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