[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 29 (Tuesday, March 17, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H1175]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES IN CHINA

  (Mrs. LINDA SMITH of Washington asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute.)
  Mrs. LINDA SMITH of Washington. Mr. Speaker, last Friday, for the 
first time since the Tiananmen Square massacre, the Clinton 
administration decided not to sponsor a U.N. resolution condemning 
China's terrible human rights record. Why? Because China just hinted 
that they may release a few dissidents.
  Let me tell my colleagues, this is not progress. For the people who 
still toil in slave labor camps in China, this is not progress. This is 
not protecting the thousands of people that are put in prison and then 
have their vital organs harvested like animals. This is not progress. 
But this is an administration that says we will have a national policy 
of trade without a conscience.
  I want to tell my colleagues, the Americans I know everywhere I have 
gone have a conscience. So today I really appreciate the gentleman from 
New Jersey (Mr. Smith) for having the courage to bring to the floor 
H.R. 364. This bill will send a strong message that America will not 
ignore the human rights abuses occurring each day in China or anywhere 
in the world.

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