Not every bill can address every subject. By addressing one urgent problem in this bill. we are not denying the existence of other urgent problems that should be addressed by other legislation or by other means. Under the administrations argument. it would have been wrong to enact the JacksonVanlk amendment which protected freedom of immigration and had the laudatory consequence of protecting Soviet Jews and others who had been denied right to emigrate. We risked superpower confrontation with the Soviet Union because we believed Soviet Jews mattered and we would never again turn our back on persecuted Jews? Not even the antiapartheid sanctions against South Africa in the 1980s. which I supported and voted for would pass the test proposed by the State Departments talking points. because those sanctions were designed to help victims of racial discrimination and racial persecution but did not address freedom of religion or other important human rights.
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