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Bills, Legislative

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:

U.S. Congress Correspondence, 1968-1978

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Identifier: B093.01.0005.0021
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Most of the records consist of letters, educational materials, bulletins and published newspaper accounts of activities by world-wide, national and local groups on behalf of Soviet Jews. Rhoda Friedman collected most of this material. The Records also have scrapbooks about Lillian Hoffman.

Dates: 1968-1978

U.S. Congress - Legislative Matters, 1968-1978

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Identifier: B093.01.0005.0019
Abstract

Materials involving Congressional legislation.

Dates: 1968-1978

U.S. Congress - Mills-Vanik Bill, 1972-1975

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Identifier: B093.01.0005.0016
Abstract

Contains materials on the Jackson-Vanik 1974 Trade Act Amendment that in part made trade between the United States and the Soviet Union conditioned upon Soviets relaxing restrictions on Jewish emigration. The bill in the House of Representatives was the Mills-Vanik and in the Senate was the Jackson bill. Members of the Colorado Committee of Concern for Soviet Jewry pushed for the Amendment to prevent the Soviet Union from charging exorbitant fees to Soviet Jews trying to emigrate.

Dates: 1972-1975