Madam Chairman. I thank the gentleman from Texas. chairman of the full Judiciary Committee. for yielding this time to me. and also the gentleman from New York . the ranking minority member. for their support in facilitating the bringing of this legislation to the floor today. This legislation gives the House. and I hope ultimately the Government of the United States. the opportunity to stand fully and squarely behind a policy that has been bipartisan and has been strongly the policy of the United States and all of its people over the last two decades. and that is the policy of encouraging free immigration from the Soviet Union. We have made that a cornerstone of our human rights policy. and we have made it a condition on trading relations between ourselves and the Soviet Union. For much of that period we have found little success.
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