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HRES 455 100th Congress House

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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Official title: 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
International Affairs EmigrationHuman rightsPeacePolitical prisoners
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Introduced
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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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 Latest action May 24, 1988

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

 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.

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 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 2
All 2 Democratic 1 Republican 1
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Hoyer, Steny H.
Maryland · May 19, 1988
 R
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/)
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