On the recordSeptember 10, 2001
again, let's keep in mind that all the Smith-Harkin amendment says is: Do not use taxpayers' money to have the State Department come into court to fight our former POWs who are seeking compensation from Japanese companies that never paid them. That is all we are asking. If the judge and the Supreme Court of the United States find that they cannot abrogate that treaty, that is the end of it, but at least give them their day in court. Let's not turn our backs on them. They suffered long enough. It is time they get their just compensation.
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