Mr. Speaker. today is a monumentous occasion filled with joy and happiness for all freedomloving people. Members of Congress welcome Anatoly Shcharansky to the United States as a free man. A little over a year ago. many of my colleagues gathered on the House steps to show our solidarity with Avital Shcharansky and the Soviet Jewish emigration movement as we marked the 8th anniversary of Anatoly Shcharanskys arrest. trial. and imprisonment. This year the gathering on the House steps will be very different. Our prayers. hopes. and dreams have been answered. After 9 years. we celebrate the release of Anatoly Shcharansky and applaud all the efforts on his behalf as evidence that our pursuit of human rights is not in vain.
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