Thomas Foley: “I rise on the reservation of the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Hamilton) not because I do not support the bill. In fact, I…”

“I rise on the reservation of the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Hamilton) not because I do not support the bill. In fact, I do support the bill and compliment the gentleman from Iowa (Mr. Leach) on his efforts to put this legislation together. I had, however, hoped to offer an amendment to it in order to address an issue of equal gravity to Holocaust survivors. That is the issue of unpaid life insurance policies from the Holocaust. Recently, I received a letter from a constituent outlining his attempt to collect on the life insurance policy owed to his father who was killed by the Nazis. He was given $30 for the life of his father and has never heard from the insurance company again. Because of this story and others like it and the fact that there were over 1.3 million policies sold to Germans at the time, Congress must act to right this wrong. In light of the circumstances under which the bill is being considered, I will now introduce legislation today requiring European insurance companies to report to the Attorney General the names of anyone they insured who is listed on either the Holocaust Museum's Registry of Jewish Holocaust Survivors or on Yad Veshem's Hall of Names in Jerusalem.”