along with our Ranking Minority Member, Bill Broomfield, and we hope to bring a foreign affairs perspective to this issue.

I’m pleased to be able to join with our distinguished members of our Commission and look forward to the work that we have ahead, and Am sure that with Dan Mica’s leadership, we will meet all of our deadlines and try to produce a document that will have a historical importance and also be a reminder that we must not allow this kind of a genocide to occur again. I think that’s probably one of the main underlying objec¬tives, to provide a proper history of what occurred, to make certain that we don’t allow this kind of an event to occur again.

As we address world hunger problems and address human rights problems, they are all wrapped up into what occurred in the Ukrainian famine, and, Mr. Chairman, we look forward to working with you. I hope that our Commission members will under¬stand that if the congressmen have to run in and out of our meetings, as Dan Mica in¬dicated, we have some other responsibilities, but we will be here with you as much as we can, and well have staff people here when we’re not here. Dr. Weinberg from our Foreign Affairs Committee will be assisting me and Mr. Broomfield in our work on the Commission, and will keep an attentive ear to what’s going on in the Commission.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Mr. FEDORAK: Mr. Chairman, I’m Bohdan Fedorak. I’m from Michigan. I’m Vice-President of the Ukrainian Congress Committee and the Chairman of its Exter¬nal Affairs Committee. This type of activity has been at the roots of our activity for many years, and we are very pleased that such a Commission has been appointed to finally define and present to the American people what the genocide in Ukraine in the ’30s was all about

Congressman BROOMFIELD: Dan, I’m Congressman Broomfield. I’m the senior Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee. I’m delighted to be on this Commission, but more than that, I think we’re very fortunate to have Dan Mica as the Chairman of this Commission because he’s highly respected on both sides of the aisle in Congress, and I am particularly pleased with the staff that he has assembled. I’m sure we will have a good report

All I can tell you, I think this whole question of the Ukrainian famine is one of the major issues. We have got to continue to put pressure on the Soviet Union.

I just got back. In fact, I spent nearly two weeks over there with the Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, but one thing I came back with. When you talk about human rights or even the famine of the Ukrainians, you’ve got to continue to publicize this, and particularly on human rights. You just cannot let up the pressure.

I agree with Ben Gilman. It is one of these things that we want to avoid these kinds of situations in the future, but you’ve got to let people know about what has happened in the past, as well.

Thank you, Dan.

Congressman MICA: Thank you.

We have before us an agenda. Each of you has a file, and the swearing in of the members Am going to hold until the last possible moment, and we’ll continue all of the comments that have been made and any testimony or any statements that you make will be made part of the official record, and we’ll wait as long as we can to see how many we can get here.