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House Concurrent Resolution 336 reflects these same concerns and expresses the sense of Congress that the Soviet Union should honor its traditional human rights commitments. noting that such actions on the part of the Soviet Union would go a long way toward improving relations between our two nations. The resolution also calls on our own President to be unflagging in his efforts to raise our concerns on behalf of the Soviet Jewish community at every appropriate opportunity. whether it be negotiations on a grain agreement. negotiations on other agreements relating to trade. commerce. or the exchange of science and technology. or on the occasion of summit level talks between our two leaders. Finally. the resolution also calls on the administration to share our concerns with our allies and to urge their cooperation in efforts to promote emigration from the Soviet Union. Mr. Speaker. all of us are familiar with the problems the Jewish community in the Soviet Union faces. It is my hope that this body will continue to send a clear and persistent signal to the Soviet Government that we will not be satisfied until the basic right to emigrate and to practice ones religious beliefs is respected in that nation.