I visited Moscow with my wife and had the very unique experience of visiting with the refuseniks. It was a most moving experience to meet with these people who are denied the right to earn a decent living. not to mention denied the right to leave the Soviet Union to visit with or to join their families in Israel or in the United States or any other part of the world. What I found very disturbing was that immediately upon application for an exit visa. these good people would lose their jobs. they lose their status. and some of them are relegated to doing very menial tasks. their children are denied opportunities in school. and it is really a life of misery. In one instance. one of the refuseniks had in his possession a United States passport and I said to him. "If you have a United States passport. why do you not leave?" He said. "I have left. but I had to come back because they would not permit my family to leave." So here we had an American citizen in Russia unable to leave to come to the United States because his family was not given permission to join him. They certainly had no state secrets. which is the favorite excuse that the Soviets use for not granting a visa. But I lived to see this gentleman and his family subsequently migrate to the United States. but he was just one of several cases who have been denied permission to visit Israel or the United States or any other country. So I am very pleased that the gentleman from New York has seen fit to bring attention to this very critical issue. and I will join my friends on Sunday in showing a sense of solidarity between Americans and Soviet Jewry for those who wish to migrate to any part of the world.