I am willing to modify the amendment and we will discuss that in just a second. But in any case. there ought to be a penalty of some sort as a signal to officials of this Government that this sort of sordid incident should never happen again. At least it will assure that Government bureaucrats do not. on their own. have the authority to reject asylum requests if persons would otherwise end up having to live the rest of their lives in the bleak existence endemic to Communist countries. or worse. As I said earlier. we have not heard anything from or about Medvid since he was returned to the Soviet Union. In addition. in order to assure that all requests forwarded to the Secretary of State and the Attorney General are given full consideration. the amendment requires a report be transmitted to the chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs in the House of Representatives and the chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate whenever asylum is denied to someone seeking political asylum from a Communist country describing the reasons for the rejection.
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Generalization about the bleak existence in Communist countries.