Skip to main content
HRES 346 99th Congress House Crime and Law Enforcement Criminal procedure Criminal procedure and sentencing Embassies Pardons Public demonstrations

A resolution expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the President should pardon the 5 rabbis who were sentenced to prison on December 12, 1985, for peacefully demonstrating at the Embassy of the Soviet Union on behalf of persecuted Jewish cultural activists and teachers of Hebrew.

Introduced: December 17, 1985 See on congress.gov
 Everywhere this bill has been 2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Dec 17, 1985
Referred to House Committee on The Judiciary.
Dec 17, 1985
Introduced in House
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the President should grant pardons to Rabbis Leonard Cahan, David Oler, Bruce Kahn, Mark Levine, and H. Steven Bayar, who were sentenced to prison for demonstrating at the Embassy of the Soviet Union.

What's happening now December 17, 1985

Referred to House Committee on The Judiciary.

 Committees of jurisdiction 1