[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 153 (Wednesday, November 5, 1997)]
[House]
[Pages H9997-H9998]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




    VOTES REFLECT SOLIDARITY WITH CHINESE IN STRUGGLE FOR DEMOCRACY

  (Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Mr. Speaker, the U.S. Congress has a unique 
opportunity today to stand in solidarity with the long-suffering 
Chinese people in their struggle for freedom, for democracy, for 
respect for human rights.
  There is a series of bills before us today ranging from enforcing a 
ban on slave labor products to condemning the abhorrent practice of 
forced abortion.
  The House will vote on sanctions on Chinese missile exports to Iran, 
as well as my bill, which will place human rights monitors in our 
Embassy and consulates in China.
  We will send a message to the people of Tibet and Taiwan that we want 
them to have self-determination.
  The House will vote on adopting a voluntary set of principles which 
promote good corporate citizenship by

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United States companies doing business in China.
  We pressure China to stop selling nuclear-related technology to 
countries such as Pakistan that are trying to develop nuclear weapons.
  The House will increase funding for the National Endowment for 
Democracy to promote democracy in China, and we will express our 
disgust at the Chinese practice of harvesting and transplanting human 
organs from prisoners, and we will deny U.S. visas to those Chinese 
officials.

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