Mr. Speaker. I am pleased to share with my colleagues the testimony of two distinguished individuals before the Senate Finance Committee in support of the Jackson freedom of emigration provision to the Trade Reform Act. Sister Margaret Ellen Traxler. chairman of the National Interreligious Task Force on Soviet Jewry. and Mr. Stanley H. Lowell. chairman of the National Conference on Soviet Jewry. both called upon the Congress to take a leadership role in upholding the long standing American commitment to human rights. and urged favorable action on this legislation. Sister Traxler told the committee that she was speaking "for the executive committee on the Interreligious Task Force and for thousands of Christians in the United States in stating to you in the most emphatic terms that in the age after Auschwitz. we as Christians are not going to stand by and allow Jews to be persecuted. intimidated or deprived of their rights in any country." Sister Traxlers eloquent remarks follow:
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