House Proceeding 06-10-09 on Jun 10th, 2009 :: 2:02:25 to 2:04:55
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Jerrold Nadler: -- agreed to. it is now in order to consider amendment number 5 printed in part c of house report 111-143. for what purpose does the gentleman from new york rise? mr. nadler: mr. speaker, i have an amendment at the desk made in order by the rule. the chair: the clerk will

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Speech By: Jerrold Nadler

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Jerrold Nadler: designate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 5 printed in part a c of house report 111-143 offered by mr. nadler of new york. the chair: pursuant to house resolution22, the gentleman from new york, mr. nadler, and a member opposed, will each control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from new york. mr. nadler: thank you, mr. chairman. mr. chairman, i rise in support of my amendment which expresses

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Jerrold Nadler: the sense of congress that we should continue working with the states of the former soviet union to see that immigrants from those states now in the united states are paid their government pensions that they earned while working in the former soviet union. the united states has bilateral agreements with many other nations to address cross-country government

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Jerrold Nadler: pension coverage. while these agreements coordinate pensions in different ways, under most circumstances government pensions are treated with reciprocity. in other words, with respect to countries with which we have arrangements, those countries pay the pensions that they earned while working in those countries to citizens of the

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Jerrold Nadler: unitedtates who now live here. and by the same token we pay social security to americans who are now citizens of a foreign country if they earned the social security while working here. we do not have such arrangements with any of the states with russia, ukraine, bell areuss and so forth.

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Jerrold Nadler: millions of people had no choice but to flee the oppressive former soviet union in the 1970's, 1980's and 1990's. several hundred thousands of these people now live in the united states and were forced to renounce their citizenship in the soviet union in order to leave. thousands of these people live

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Jerrold Nadler: here and they do not in spite of having worked 30 or 40 years earning pension rights in the states of the former soviet union, they do not receive pensions from any of the successor states. so i -- this amendment simply is a sense of the congress urging the state department to continue trying to negotiate such arrangements with the

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Jerrold Nadler: states of the former soviet union so that the former citizens of those countries who now are citizens of the united states and li here can receive the pensions that they earned while living in russia. this should be a no-brainer. it simply urges the state department to continue efforts to negotiate sucarrangements