[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 108 (Monday, August 8, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: August 8, 1994]
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                           MFN FOR CHINA? NOT

  (Mr. WOLF asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WOLF. Mr. Speaker, tomorrow the Congress will have an opportunity 
to vote for human rights in China.
  Some people say it does not work. Well, let me ask you a question. 
Ask Nelson Mandela, did human rights and pressure from the United 
States work in South Africa? And he will say ``yes.''
  Ask Elena Bonner and those who are interested in the emigration of 
Soviet Jews to Israel and to the United States, did sanctions work 
there? They will say ``yes.''
  Ask Father Ceaushu and the numbers in Romania that we used to get out 
of jail because of MFN sanctions. What will they say? They will say 
``yes.''
  Ask Vaclev Havel, who came and spoke to this very body and said how 
important it was, ask him if sanctions worked. Clearly they work.
  Now, some say that President Clinton is going to veto this bill. That 
is his problem. But I will tell you this: The American people want this 
Congress to vote for sanctions to send a message to the People's 
Liberation Army that we stand not with the People's Liberation Army but 
we stand with the suffering, persecuted in China.

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