[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 148 (Wednesday, October 29, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H9628]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




            PRESIDENT JIANG ZEMIN ENTERTAINED AT WHITE HOUSE

  (Ms. PELOSI asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. PELOSI. Mr. Speaker, today President Jiang Zemin is being 
entertained at the White House. The plight of the people of China and 
Tibet is a challenge to the conscience of the United States.
  So I would join my colleagues in reminding President Clinton that 
when he toasts President Jiang Zemin, that he not forget that Mr. Jiang 
Zemin is directing the torture of many prisoners of conscience in China 
as the State dinner proceeds.
  And as the Clinton administration gives the 21-gun salute to 
President Jiang Zemin today, which the Chinese Government insisted 
upon, that President Clinton and all those assembled remember the shots 
fired in Tiananmen Square. By the way, the bullets that killed the 
young demonstrators, the bills for those bullets were sent to the 
families as a cost to them for killing their children.
  And I hope the President and those gathered will not forget the 
millions of people in labor camps for their religious and political 
beliefs. Prisoners of conscience are told that nobody knows about them 
and that nobody cares. That is a painful form of torture.
  But we all remember Wei Jingsheng and Wang Dan and so many others in 
prison, and I hope that President Clinton will have them on his mind as 
he toasts President Jiang Zemin today.

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