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A resolution protesting Soviet human rights violations, especially restrictive emigration regulations, and calling on the President to stress, at the Moscow summit meeting, the inherent link between…

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A resolution protesting Soviet human rights violations, especially restrictive emigration regulations, and calling on the President to stress, at the Moscow summit meeting, the inherent link between respect for human rights and the achievement of lasting peace.

Introduced: May 19, 1988 See on congress.gov

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Agreed to (House)

May 24, 1988

Resolution Agreed to in House (Amended) by Yea-Nay Vote: 411 - 0 (Record Vote No: 151).

May 24, 1988

Passed/agreed to in House: Resolution Agreed to in House (Amended) by Yea-Nay Vote: 411 - 0 (Record Vote No: 151).

May 24, 1988

Called up by House Under Suspension of Rules.

May 19, 1988

Referred to House Committee on Foreign Affairs.

May 19, 1988

Introduced in House

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Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Protests Soviet human rights violations, especially its restrictive emigration regulations. Calls upon: (1) the Soviet Union to release all prisoners of conscience; and (2) the President to stress at the upcoming summit meeting in Moscow the inherent link between respect for human rights and the achievement of lasting peace.

What's happening now May 24, 1988

Resolution Agreed to in House (Amended) by Yea-Nay Vote: 411 - 0 (Record Vote No: 151).

Related & companion bills 1

Committees of jurisdiction 1

Foreign Affairs Committee
House of Representatives

Cosponsors 2

Hoyer, Steny H.

Maryland · May 19, 1988

Smith, Christopher H.

New Jersey · May 19, 1988

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APA

U.S. Congress. (2026). H. Res. 455: A resolution protesting Soviet human rights violations, especially restrictive emigration regulations, and calling on the President to stress, at the Moscow summit meeting, the inherent link between respect for human rights and the achievement of lasting peace.. 100th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/100-HRES-455/

MLA

"H. Res. 455: A resolution protesting Soviet human rights violations, especially restrictive emigration regulations, and calling on the President to stress, at the Moscow summit meeting, the inherent link between respect for human rights and the achievement of lasting peace.." 100th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/100-HRES-455/.

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H. Res. 455, 100th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/100-HRES-455/.

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[H. Res. 455: A resolution protesting Soviet human rights violations, especially restrictive emigration regulations, and calling on the President to stress, at the Moscow summit meeting, the inherent link between respect for human rights and the achievement of lasting peace.](https://openamerica.io/bill/100-HRES-455/)