Madam Chairman. I rise today in support of H.R. 2022. I urge my colleagues to vote in favor of this bill and restore presumption of refugee status to Soviet Jews who have escaped persecution in the U.S.S.R. only to find themselves refuseniks of the United States. The time has come to dispel a myth. A 1.000 year legacy of Russian antiSemitism has not evaporated with glasnost. In fact the reverse is true. In the new Soviet environment. latent antiSemitism has reemerged as radical groups. such as the virulently racist and antiZionist Pamyat. spread their messages of hate. Jews still in the U.S.S.R. now live in constant fear of physical violence and possible pogroms.