[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 116 (Wednesday, July 29, 2009)]
[House]
[Page H8964]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       ANOTHER MISSED OPPORTUNITY

  (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, in Monday's Wall Street Journal, Secretary of 
State Hillary Clinton and Secretary of the Treasury Geithner co-
authored an opinion piece outlining the issues to be discussed in the 
U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue. No mention of human rights. 
No mention of the Chinese Government's suppression of journalists. No 
mention of the dozens of human rights lawyers across China who have 
been stripped of their licenses, no mention of the 35 Catholic bishops 
that languish in Chinese prisons and slave labor camps, no mention of 
the Chinese Government's crackdown on the ethnic Uyghurs, no mention of 
how China continues to repatriate North Korean refugees, no mention of 
human rights.
  Human rights simply cannot be separated from economic policy. The 
Obama administration has missed yet another opportunity to make human 
rights a fundamental component of U.S. foreign policy.

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