I am very pleased to yield 4 minutes to the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Hoyer), the other main cosponsor of this legislation, our Democratic whip, a leader for so many years on the issue of the U.S.-Israel relationship.
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I have no further requests for time. If the gentlelady is prepared to close, I am prepared to relinquish my remaining time. Mr. Speaker, I urge support for the legislation, and I yield back the balance of my time.
I am pleased to yield such time as she may consume to the sponsor of this resolution, the gentlelady from California (Ms. Loretta Sanchez).
I think this is a very historic piece of bipartisan legislation. Just as Jackson-Vanik became a tool to deal with one aspect of a horrible set of policies by the Soviet Union during the Cold War, we now, using the Magnitsky legislation…
By choosing not to go forward with a ground operation he saved countless Israeli and Palestinian lives.
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