Mr. Speaker. we have convened the historic 100th Congress of the United States. I join today with my colleagues in the House to bring attention yet again to the over 300.000 Soviet Jews who continue to be denied the right to emigrate and be reunited with their family members. It is difficult in this great Nation. with our high regard for the rights of the individual. to imagine a country that places greater emphasis on the iron will of government than on basic and. what should be. undeniable individual freedoms. But although our struggle to open the door of freedom for those who seek a new beginning in democratic lands may sometimes seem to be in vain. our voices are sometimes heard and our efforts are sometimes successful. Since my election to Congress in 1983. I have tried to secure the release of several families who sought to emigrate. in particular Boris and Irene Ghinis. who desperately wanted to join their family here in the United States. After many fruitless attempts. I am happy to report that Boris and Irene were allowed to emigrate last year and have been reunited with their loves ones. With the successful emigration of the Ghinis. I have now added the family of Nachman Komack to the others for whom I continue to work and fight. Of course. the happy ending of the Ghinis family is but one small victory. and is overshadowed by the thousands and thousands of individuals whose happy endings have yet to be written and whose dreams remain unfulfilled.
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