Because. for 6 years. it was my privilege to serve as the chairman of the Trade Subcommittee of the Finance Committee. And the job of that Trade Subcommittee was to hold annual hearings. annual review of mostfavorednation status for Romania. That annual review was an opportunity for the Romanian Ambassador to come in and talk to me to explain what Romania was doing with respect to emigration. And it was also an opportunity for me and my staff to give Romania lists of people who wanted to escape from that country and who had not been allowed to escape. That is what JacksonVanik did. that is what the annual review process did. JacksonVanik has a very limited use. It has to do with emigration. It does not have to do with everything we could list that is a complaint with Romania or with any other country. It has to do with emigration. That is why it was designed. It was designed for the express purpose of letting people out of captivity.
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