[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 65 (Tuesday, May 4, 2010)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E738]
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                          PERSONAL EXPLANATION

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                           HON. JOHN J. HALL

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                          Tuesday, May 4, 2010

  Mr. HALL of New York. Madam Speaker, on March 16th, I missed rollcall 
vote 118 on passage of H. Res. 605. If I were present, I would have 
voted ``aye'' in support of recognizing the continued campaign to 
persecute, intimidate, imprison, and torture Falun Gong practitioners 
in China. I strongly supported this legislation.
  The Chinese Government has conducted an official program of 
persecution and suppression of practitioners of Falun Gong for ten 
years. I join my colleagues in Congress in expressing sympathy to 
practitioners of Falun Gong in China, the United States and around the 
world, and in calling on the Chinese Government to end their campaign 
of discrimination, intimidation and imprisonment of Falun Gong 
practitioners.

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