The gentleman has been one of my good friends in the House of Representatives. a man for whom I have the highest respect. a thoughtful conservative who has worked to solve the problems of our country. and we are going to miss him greatly and wish him well in anything that he chooses to do in the future. Mr. Speaker. this conference report contains loan guarantees for Israel that are absolutely essential to settle hundreds of thousands of refugees from the Soviet Union. for whose settlement this country has a moral obligation. Mr. Speaker. we sought to bring people from the Soviet Union. oppressed people denied the right to emigrate. to freedom. I went to the Soviet Union in 1982 to visit refusnik families in both Moscow and Leningrad. and came back with the concept of the congressional human rights caucus. which I then formed on a bipartisan basis. The congressional human rights caucus has worked over the past 10 years to help bring people out of the Soviet Union.
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