[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 164 (Tuesday, September 22, 2020)]
[House]
[Pages H4657-H4666]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   UYGHUR FORCED LABOR PREVENTION ACT

  Mr. CASTRO of Texas. Madam Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and 
pass the bill (H.R. 6210) ensuring that goods made with forced labor in 
the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China 
do not enter the United States market, and for other purposes, as 
amended.
  The Clerk read the title of the bill.
  The text of the bill is as follows:

                               H.R. 6210

       Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
     the United States of America in Congress assembled,

     SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

       This Act may be cited as the ``Uyghur Forced Labor 
     Prevention Act''.

     SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

       Congress finds the following:
       (1) In the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China, the 
     Government of the People's Republic of China has, since 2017, 
     arbitrarily detained as many as 1.8 million Uyghurs, Kazakhs, 
     Kyrgyz, and members of other Muslim minority groups in a 
     system of extrajudicial mass internment camps, and has 
     subjected detainees to forced labor, torture, political 
     indoctrination, and other severe human rights abuses.
       (2) Forced labor exists within the Xinjiang Uyghur 
     Autonomous Region's system of mass internment camps, and 
     throughout the region, and is confirmed by the testimony of 
     former camp detainees, satellite imagery, and official leaked 
     documents from the Government of the People's Republic of 
     China as part of a targeted campaign of repression of Muslim 
     ethnic minorities.
       (3) In addition to reports from researchers and civil 
     society groups documenting evidence that many factories and 
     other suppliers in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region are 
     exploiting forced labor, the Department of Commerce's Bureau 
     of Industry and Security on July 22, 2020, added eleven 
     entities to the entity list after determining the entities 
     had been ``implicated in human rights violations and abuses 
     in the implementation of China's campaign of repression, mass 
     arbitrary detention, forced labor and high-technology 
     surveillance against Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and other members of 
     Muslim minority groups in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous 
     Region''.
       (4) Audits and efforts to vet products and supply chains in 
     the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region are unreliable due to 
     the extent forced labor has been integrated into the regional 
     economy, the mixing of involuntary labor with voluntary 
     labor, the inability of witnesses to speak freely about 
     working conditions given government surveillance and 
     coercion, and the incentive of government officials to 
     conceal government-sponsored forced labor.
       (5) The Department of State's June 2019 Trafficking in 
     Persons Report found that ``Authorities offer subsidies 
     incentivizing Chinese companies to open factories in close 
     proximity to the internment camps, and local governments 
     receive additional funds for each inmate forced to work in 
     these sites at a fraction of minimum wage or without any 
     compensation.''.
       (6) U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued eight 
     ``Withhold Release Orders'' on certain garments, hair 
     products, cotton, processed cotton, and computer parts 
     suspected to be produced with prison or forced labor in the 
     Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.
       (7) In its 2019 Annual Report, the Congressional-Executive 
     Commission on China (CECC) found that products reportedly 
     produced with forced labor by current and former mass 
     internment camp detainees included textiles, electronics, 
     food products, shoes, tea, and handicrafts.
       (8) Section 307 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1307) 
     states that it is illegal to import into the United States 
     ``goods, wares, articles, and merchandise mined, produced, or 
     manufactured wholly or in part'' by forced labor. Such 
     merchandise is subject to exclusion or seizure and may lead 
     to criminal investigation of the importer.
       (9) The policies of the Government of the People's Republic 
     of China are in contravention of international human rights 
     instruments signed by that government, including--

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       (A) the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the 
     International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which 
     the People's Republic of China has signed but not yet 
     ratified;
       (B) the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and 
     Cultural Rights, ratified by the People's Republic of China 
     in 2001; and
       (C) the United Nations Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and 
     Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children 
     (Palermo Protocol), to which the People's Republic of China 
     has been a state party since February 2010.

     SEC. 3. STATEMENT OF POLICY.

       It is the policy of the United States--
       (1) to prohibit the import of all goods, wares, articles, 
     or merchandise mined, produced, or manufactured, wholly or in 
     part, by forced labor from the People's Republic of China and 
     particularly any such goods, wares, articles, or merchandise 
     produced in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China;
       (2) to encourage the international community to reduce the 
     import of any goods made with forced labor from the People's 
     Republic of China, particularly those goods mined, 
     manufactured, or produced in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous 
     Region;
       (3) to coordinate with Mexico and Canada to effectively 
     implement Article 23.6 of the United States-Mexico-Canada 
     Agreement to prohibit the importation of goods produced in 
     whole or in part by forced or compulsory labor, which 
     includes goods produced in whole or in part by forced or 
     compulsory labor in the People's Republic of China;
       (4) to actively work to prevent, publicly denounce, and end 
     human trafficking as a horrific assault on human dignity and 
     to restore the lives of those affected by human trafficking, 
     a modern form of slavery;
       (5) to regard the prevention of atrocities as in its 
     national interest, including efforts to prevent torture, 
     enforced disappearances, severe deprivation of liberty, 
     including mass internment, arbitrary detention, and 
     widespread and systematic use of forced labor, and 
     persecution targeting any identifiable ethnic or religious 
     group; and
       (6) to address gross violations of human rights in the 
     Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region through bilateral 
     diplomatic channels and multilateral institutions where both 
     the United States and the People's Republic of China are 
     members and with all the authorities available to the United 
     States Government, including visa and financial sanctions, 
     export restrictions, and import controls.

     SEC. 4. PROHIBITION ON IMPORTATION OF GOODS MADE IN THE 
                   XINJIANG UYGHUR AUTONOMOUS REGION.

       (a) In General.--Except as provided in subsection (b), all 
     goods, wares, articles, and merchandise mined, produced, or 
     manufactured wholly or in part in the Xinjiang Uyghur 
     Autonomous Region of China, or by persons working with the 
     Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region government for purposes of 
     the ``poverty alleviation'' program or the ``pairing-
     assistance'' program which subsidizes the establishment of 
     manufacturing facilities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous 
     Region, shall be deemed to be goods, wares, articles, and 
     merchandise described in section 307 of the Tariff Act of 
     1930 (19 U.S.C. 1307) and shall not be entitled to entry at 
     any of the ports of the United States.
       (b) Exception.--The prohibition described in subsection (a) 
     shall not apply if the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and 
     Border Protection--
       (1) determines, by clear and convincing evidence, that any 
     specific goods, wares, articles, or merchandise described in 
     subsection (a) were not produced wholly or in part by convict 
     labor, forced labor, or indentured labor under penal 
     sanctions; and
       (2) submits to the appropriate congressional committees and 
     makes available to the public a report that contains such 
     determination.
       (c) Effective Date.--This section shall take effect on the 
     date that is 120 days after the date of the enactment of this 
     Act.

     SEC. 5. ENFORCEMENT STRATEGY TO ADDRESS FORCED LABOR IN THE 
                   XINJIANG UYGHUR AUTONOMOUS REGION.

       (a) In General.--Not later than 120 days after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, the Forced Labor Enforcement Task 
     Force, established under section 741 of the United States-
     Mexico-Canada Agreement Implementation Act (19 U.S.C. 4681), 
     shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a 
     report that contains an enforcement strategy to effectively 
     address forced labor in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region 
     of China. The enforcement strategy shall describe the 
     specific enforcement plans of the United States Government 
     regarding--
       (1) goods, wares, articles, and merchandise described in 
     section 4(a) that are imported into the United States 
     directly from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region;
       (2) goods, wares, articles, and merchandise described in 
     section 4(a) that are imported into the United States from 
     the People's Republic of China and are mined, produced, or 
     manufactured in part in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region 
     or by persons working with the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous 
     Region government for purposes of the ``poverty alleviation'' 
     program or the ``pairing-assistance'' program; and
       (3) goods, wares, articles, and merchandise described in 
     section 4(a) that are imported into the United States from 
     third countries and are mined, produced, or manufactured in 
     part in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region or by persons 
     working with the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region government 
     for purposes of the ``poverty alleviation'' program or the 
     ``pairing-assistance'' program.
       (b) Matters To Be Included.--The strategy required by 
     subsection (a) shall include the following:
       (1) A description of the actions taken by the United States 
     Government to address forced labor in the Xinjiang Uyghur 
     Autonomous Region under section 307 of the Tariff Act of 1930 
     (19 U.S.C. 1307), including a description of all Withhold 
     Release Orders issued, goods detained, and fines issued.
       (2) A list of products made wholly or in part by forced or 
     involuntary labor in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region 
     and a list of businesses that sold products in the United 
     States made wholly or in part by forced or involuntary labor 
     in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.
       (3) A list of facilities and entities, including the 
     Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, that source 
     material from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region or by 
     persons working with the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region 
     government for purposes of the ``poverty alleviation'' 
     program or the ``pairing-assistance'' program, a plan for 
     identifying additional such facilities and entities, and 
     facility- and entity-specific enforcement plans, including 
     issuing specific Withhold Release Orders to support 
     enforcement of section 4, with regard to each listed facility 
     or entity.
       (4) A list of high-priority sectors for enforcement, which 
     shall include cotton and tomatoes, and a sector-specific 
     enforcement plan for each high-priority sector.
       (5) A description of the additional resources necessary for 
     U.S. Customs and Border Protection to effectively implement 
     the enforcement strategy.
       (6) A plan to coordinate and collaborate with appropriate 
     nongovernmental organizations and private sector entities to 
     discuss the enforcement strategy for products made in the 
     Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.
       (c) Form.--The report required by subsection (a) shall be 
     submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classified 
     annex, if necessary.
       (d) Updates.--The Forced Labor Enforcement Task Force shall 
     provide briefings to the appropriate congressional committees 
     on a quarterly basis and, as applicable, on any updates to 
     the strategy required by subsection (a) or any additional 
     actions taken to address forced labor in the Xinjiang Uyghur 
     Autonomous Region, including actions described in this Act.
       (e) Sunset.--This section shall cease to have effect on the 
     earlier of--
       (1) the date that is 8 years after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act; or
       (2) the date on which the President submits to the 
     appropriate congressional committees a determination that the 
     Government of the People's Republic of China has ended mass 
     internment, forced labor, and any other gross violations of 
     human rights experienced by Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and 
     members of other Muslim minority groups in the Xinjiang 
     Uyghur Autonomous Region.

     SEC. 6. DETERMINATION RELATING TO CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY OR 
                   GENOCIDE IN THE XINJIANG UYGHUR AUTONOMOUS 
                   REGION.

       (a) In General.--Not later than 90 days after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall--
       (1) determine if the practice of forced labor or other 
     crimes against Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and members of other 
     Muslim minority groups in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous 
     Region of China can be considered systematic and widespread 
     and therefore constitutes crimes against humanity or 
     constitutes genocide as defined in subsection (a) of section 
     1091 of title 18, United States Code; and
       (2) submit to the appropriate congressional committees and 
     make available to the public a report that contains such 
     determination.
       (b) Form.--The report required by subsection (a)--
       (1) shall be submitted in unclassified form but may include 
     a classified annex, if necessary; and
       (2) may be included in the report required by section 7.

     SEC. 7. DIPLOMATIC STRATEGY TO ADDRESS FORCED LABOR IN THE 
                   XINJIANG UYGHUR AUTONOMOUS REGION.

       (a) In General.--Not later than 90 days after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State, in 
     coordination with the heads of other appropriate Federal 
     departments and agencies, shall submit to the appropriate 
     congressional committees a report that contains a United 
     States strategy to promote initiatives to enhance 
     international awareness of and to address forced labor in the 
     Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China.
       (b) Matters To Be Included.--The strategy required by 
     subsection (a) shall include--
       (1) a plan to enhance bilateral and multilateral 
     coordination, including sustained engagement with the 
     governments of United States partners and allies, to end 
     forced labor of Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and members of 
     other Muslim minority groups in the Xinjiang Uyghur 
     Autonomous Region;
       (2) public affairs, public diplomacy, and counter-messaging 
     efforts to promote awareness of the human rights situation, 
     including forced labor in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous 
     Region; and

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       (3) opportunities to coordinate and collaborate with 
     appropriate nongovernmental organizations and private sector 
     entities to raise awareness about forced labor made products 
     from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and to provide 
     assistance to Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and members of other 
     Muslim minority groups, including those formerly detained in 
     mass internment camps in the region.
       (c) Additional Matters To Be Included.--The report required 
     by subsection (a) shall also include--
       (1) to the extent practicable, a list of--
       (A) entities in the People's Republic of China or 
     affiliates of such entities that directly or indirectly use 
     forced or involuntary labor in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous 
     Region; and
       (B) Foreign persons that acted as agents of the entities or 
     affiliates of entities described in subparagraph (A) to 
     import goods into the United States; and
       (2) a description of actions taken by the United States 
     Government to address forced labor in the Xinjiang Uyghur 
     Autonomous Region under existing authorities, including--
       (A) the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (Public 
     Law 106-386; 22 U.S.C. 7101 et seq.);
       (B) the Ellie Wiesel Genocide and Atrocities Prevention Act 
     of 2018 (Public Law 115-441; 22 U.S.C. 2656 note); and
       (C) the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act 
     (22 U.S.C. 2656 note).
       (d) Form.--The report required by subsection (a) shall be 
     submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classified 
     annex, if necessary.
       (e) Updates.--The Secretary of State shall include any 
     updates to the strategy required by subsection (a) in the 
     annual Trafficking in Persons report required by section 
     110(b) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22 
     U.S.C. 7107(b)).
       (f) Sunset.--This section shall cease to have effect the 
     earlier of--
       (1) the date that is 8 years after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act; or
       (2) the date on which the President submits to the 
     appropriate congressional committees a determination that the 
     Government of the People's Republic of China has ended mass 
     internment, forced labor, and any other gross violations of 
     human rights experienced by Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and 
     members of other Muslim minority groups in the Xinjiang 
     Uyghur Autonomous Region.

     SEC. 8. IMPOSITION OF SANCTIONS RELATING TO FORCED LABOR IN 
                   THE XINJIANG UYGHUR AUTONOMOUS REGION.

       (a) Report Required.--
       (1) In general.--Not later than 180 days after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, and not less frequently than 
     annually thereafter, the President shall submit to the 
     appropriate congressional committees a report that identifies 
     each foreign person, including any official of the Government 
     of the People's Republic of China, that the President 
     determines--
       (A) knowingly engages in, is responsible for, or 
     facilitates the forced labor of Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and 
     members of other Muslim minority groups in the Xinjiang 
     Uyghur Autonomous Region of China; and
       (B) knowingly engages in, contributes to, assists, or 
     provides financial, material or technological support for 
     efforts to contravene United States law regarding the 
     importation of forced labor goods from the Xinjiang Uyghur 
     Autonomous Region.
       (2) Form.--The report required under paragraph (1) shall be 
     submitted in unclassified form, but may contain a classified 
     annex.
       (b) Imposition of Sanctions.--The President shall impose 
     the sanctions described in subsection (c) with respect to 
     each foreign person identified in the report required under 
     subsection (a)(1).
       (c) Sanctions Described.--The sanctions described in this 
     subsection are the following:
       (1) Asset blocking.--The President shall exercise all of 
     the powers granted to the President under the International 
     Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) to the 
     extent necessary to block and prohibit all transactions in 
     property and interests in property of a foreign person 
     identified in the report required under subsection (a)(1) if 
     such property and interests in property--
       (A) are in the United States;
       (B) come within the United States; or
       (C) come within the possession or control of a United 
     States person.
       (2) Ineligibility for visas, admission, or parole.--
       (A) Visas, admission, or parole.--An alien described in 
     subsection (a)(1) is--
       (i) inadmissible to the United States;
       (ii) ineligible to receive a visa or other documentation to 
     enter the United States; and
       (iii) otherwise ineligible to be admitted or paroled into 
     the United States or to receive any other benefit under the 
     Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq.).
       (B) Current visas revoked.--
       (i) In general.--An alien described in subsection (a)(1) is 
     subject to revocation of any visa or other entry 
     documentation regardless of when the visa or other entry 
     documentation is or was issued.
       (ii) Immediate effect.--A revocation under clause (i) 
     shall--

       (I) take effect immediately; and
       (II) automatically cancel any other valid visa or entry 
     documentation that is in the alien's possession.

       (d) Implementation; Penalties.--
       (1) Implementation.--The President may exercise all 
     authorities provided under sections 203 and 205 of the 
     International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1702 
     and 1704) to carry out this section.
       (2) Penalties.--The penalties provided for in subsections 
     (b) and (c) of section 206 of the International Emergency 
     Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1705) shall apply to a foreign 
     person that violates, attempts to violate, conspires to 
     violate, or causes a violation of paragraph (1) to the same 
     extent that such penalties apply to a person that commits an 
     unlawful act described in subsection (a) of such section 206.
       (e) Waiver.--The President may waive the application of 
     sanctions under this section with respect to a foreign person 
     identified in the report required under subsection (a)(1) if 
     the President determines and certifies to the appropriate 
     congressional committees that such a waiver is in the 
     national interest of the United States.
       (f) Exceptions.--
       (1) Exception for intelligence activities.--Sanctions under 
     this section shall not apply to any activity subject to the 
     reporting requirements under title V of the National Security 
     Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3091 et seq.) or any authorized 
     intelligence activities of the United States.
       (2) Exception to comply with international obligations and 
     for law enforcement activities.--Sanctions under subsection 
     (c)(2) shall not apply with respect to an alien if admitting 
     or paroling the alien into the United States is necessary--
       (A) to permit the United States to comply with the 
     Agreement regarding the Headquarters of the United Nations, 
     signed at Lake Success June 26, 1947, and entered into force 
     November 21, 1947, between the United Nations and the United 
     States, or other applicable international obligations; or
       (B) to carry out or assist law enforcement activity in the 
     United States.
       (g) Termination of Sanctions.--The President may terminate 
     the application of sanctions under this section with respect 
     to a foreign person if the President determines and reports 
     to the appropriate congressional committees not less than 15 
     days before the termination takes effect that--
       (1) information exists that the person did not engage in 
     the activity for which sanctions were imposed;
       (2) the person has been prosecuted appropriately for the 
     activity for which sanctions were imposed;
       (3) the person has credibly demonstrated a significant 
     change in behavior, has paid an appropriate consequence for 
     the activity for which sanctions were imposed, and has 
     credibly committed to not engage in an activity described in 
     subsection (a)(1) in the future; or
       (4) the termination of the sanctions is in the national 
     security interests of the United States.
       (h) Sunset.--This section, and any sanctions imposed under 
     this section, shall terminate on the date that is 5 years 
     after the date of the enactment of this Act.
       (i) Definitions of Admission; Admitted; Alien.--In this 
     section, the terms ``admission'', ``admitted'', and ``alien'' 
     have the meanings given those terms in section 101 of the 
     Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101).

     SEC. 9. DISCLOSURES TO THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION 
                   OF CERTAIN ACTIVITIES RELATED TO THE XINJIANG 
                   UYGHUR AUTONOMOUS REGION.

       (a) Policy Statement.--It is the policy of the United 
     States to protect American investors, through stronger 
     disclosure requirements, alerting them to the presence of 
     Chinese and other companies complicit in gross violations of 
     human rights in United States capital markets, including 
     American and foreign companies listed on United States 
     exchanges that enable the mass internment and population 
     surveillance of Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and other Muslim 
     minorities and source products made with forced labor in the 
     Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China. Such involvements 
     represent clear, material risks to the share values and 
     corporate reputations of certain of these companies and hence 
     to prospective American investors, particularly given that 
     the United States Government has employed sanctions and 
     export restrictions to target individuals and entities 
     contributing to human rights abuses in the People's Republic 
     of China.
       (b) Disclosure of Certain Activities Relating to the 
     Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.--
       (1) In general.--Section 13 of the Securities Exchange Act 
     of 1934 (15 U.S.C. 78m) is amended by adding at the end the 
     following new subsection:
       ``(s) Disclosure of Certain Activities Relating to the 
     Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.--
       ``(1) In general.--Each issuer required to file an annual 
     or quarterly report under subsection (a) shall disclose in 
     that report the information required by paragraph (2) if, 
     during the period covered by the report, the issuer or any 
     affiliate of the issuer--
       ``(A) knowingly engaged in an activity with an entity or 
     the affiliate of an entity engaged in creating or providing 
     technology or other assistance to create mass population 
     surveillance systems in the Xinjiang

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     Uyghur Autonomous Region of China, including any entity 
     included on the Department of Commerce's `Entity List' in the 
     Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region;
       ``(B) knowingly engaged in an activity with an entity or an 
     affiliate of an entity building and running detention 
     facilities for Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and other members of 
     Muslim minority groups in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous 
     Region;
       ``(C) knowingly engaged in an activity with an entity or an 
     affiliate of an entity described in section 7(c)(1) of the 
     Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, including--
       ``(i) any entity engaged in the `pairing-assistance' 
     program which subsidizes the establishment of manufacturing 
     facilities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region; or
       ``(ii) any entity for which the Department of Homeland 
     Security has issued a `Withhold Release Order' under section 
     307 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1307); or
       ``(D) knowingly conducted any transaction or had dealings 
     with--
       ``(i) any person the property and interests in property of 
     which were sanctioned by the Secretary of State for the 
     detention or abuse of Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, or other 
     members of Muslim minority groups in the Xinjiang Uyghur 
     Autonomous Region;
       ``(ii) any person the property and interests in property of 
     which are sanctioned pursuant to the Global Magnitsky Human 
     Rights Accountability Act (22 U.S.C. 2656 note); or
       ``(iii) any person or entity responsible for, or complicit 
     in, committing atrocities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous 
     Region.
       ``(2) Information required.--
       ``(A) In general.--If an issuer described under paragraph 
     (1) or an affiliate of the issuer has engaged in any activity 
     described in paragraph (1), the information required by this 
     paragraph is a detailed description of each such activity, 
     including--
       ``(i) the nature and extent of the activity;
       ``(ii) the gross revenues and net profits, if any, 
     attributable to the activity; and
       ``(iii) whether the issuer or the affiliate of the issuer 
     (as the case may be) intends to continue the activity.
       ``(B) Exception.--The requirement to disclose information 
     under this paragraph shall not include information on 
     activities of the issuer or any affiliate of the issuer 
     activities relating to--
       ``(i) the import of manufactured goods, including 
     electronics, food products, textiles, shoes, and teas, that 
     originated in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region; or
       ``(ii) manufactured goods containing materials that 
     originated or are sourced in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous 
     Region.
       ``(3) Notice of disclosures.--If an issuer reports under 
     paragraph (1) that the issuer or an affiliate of the issuer 
     has knowingly engaged in any activity described in that 
     paragraph, the issuer shall separately file with the 
     Commission, concurrently with the annual or quarterly report 
     under subsection (a), a notice that the disclosure of that 
     activity has been included in that annual or quarterly report 
     that identifies the issuer and contains the information 
     required by paragraph (2).
       ``(4) Public disclosure of information.--Upon receiving a 
     notice under paragraph (3) that an annual or quarterly report 
     includes a disclosure of an activity described in paragraph 
     (1), the Commission shall promptly--
       ``(A) transmit the report to--
       ``(i) the President;
       ``(ii) the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee 
     on Financial Services of the House of Representatives; and
       ``(iii) the Committee on Foreign Relations and the 
     Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the 
     Senate; and
       ``(B) make the information provided in the disclosure and 
     the notice available to the public by posting the information 
     on the Internet website of the Commission.
       ``(5) Investigations.--Upon receiving a report under 
     paragraph (4) that includes a disclosure of an activity 
     described in paragraph (1), the President shall--
       ``(A) make a determination with respect to whether any 
     investigation is needed into the possible imposition of 
     sanctions under the Global Magnitsky Human Rights 
     Accountability Act (22 U.S.C. 2656 note) or section 8 of the 
     Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act or whether criminal 
     investigations are warranted under statutes intended to hold 
     accountable individuals or entities involved in the 
     importation of goods produced by forced labor, including 
     under section 545, 1589, or 1761 of title 18, United States 
     Code; and
       ``(B) not later than 180 days after initiating any such 
     investigation, make a determination with respect to whether a 
     sanction should be imposed or criminal investigations 
     initiated with respect to the issuer or the affiliate of the 
     issuer (as the case may be).
       ``(6) Atrocities defined.--In this subsection, the term 
     `atrocities' has the meaning given the term in section 6(2) 
     of the Elie Wiesel Genocide and Atrocities Prevention Act of 
     2018 (Public Law 115-441; 22 U.S.C. 2656 note).''.
       (c) Sunset.--Section 13(s) of the Securities Exchange Act 
     of 1934, as added by subsection (b), is repealed on the 
     earlier of--
       (1) the date that is 8 years after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act; or
       (2) the date on which the President submits to the 
     appropriate congressional committees a determination that the 
     Government of the People's Republic of China has ended mass 
     internment, forced labor, and any other gross violations of 
     human rights experienced by Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and 
     members of other Muslim minority groups in the Xinjiang 
     Uyghur Autonomous Region.
       (d) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (b) 
     shall take effect with respect to reports required to be 
     filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission after the 
     date that is 180 days after the date of the enactment of this 
     Act.

     SEC. 10. DEFINITIONS.

       In this Act:
       (1) Appropriate congressional committees.--The term 
     ``appropriate congressional committees'' means--
       (A) the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Committee on 
     Financial Services, and the Committee on Ways and Means of 
     the House of Representatives; and
       (B) the Committee on Foreign Relations, the Committee on 
     Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, and the Committee on 
     Finance of the Senate.
       (2) Atrocities.--The term ``atrocities'' has the meaning 
     given the term in section 6(2) of the Elie Wiesel Genocide 
     and Atrocities Prevention Act of 2018 (Public Law 115-441; 22 
     U.S.C. 2656 note).
       (3) Crimes against humanity.--The term ``crimes against 
     humanity'' includes, when committed as part of a widespread 
     or systematic attack directed against any civilian 
     population, with knowledge of the attack--
       (A) murder;
       (B) deportation or forcible transfer of population;
       (C) torture;
       (D) extermination;
       (E) enslavement;
       (F) rape, sexual slavery, or any other form of sexual 
     violence of comparable severity;
       (G) persecution against any identifiable group or 
     collectivity on political, racial, national, ethnic, 
     cultural, religious, gender, or other grounds that are 
     universally recognized as impermissible under international 
     law; and
       (H) enforced disappearance of persons.
       (4) Forced labor.--The term ``forced labor'' has the 
     meaning given the term in section 307 of the Tariff Act of 
     1930 (19 U.S.C. 1307).
       (5) Foreign person.--The term ``foreign person'' means a 
     person that is not a United States person.
       (6) Person.--The term ``person'' means an individual or 
     entity.
       (7) Mass population surveillance system.--The term ``mass 
     population surveillance system'' means installation and 
     integration of facial recognition cameras, biometric data 
     collection, cell phone surveillance, and artificial 
     intelligence technology with the ``Sharp Eyes'' and 
     ``Integrated Joint Operations Platform'' or other 
     technologies that are used by Chinese security forces for 
     surveillance and big-data predictive policing.
       (8) United states person.--The term ``United States 
     person'' means--
       (A) a United States citizen or an alien lawfully admitted 
     for permanent residence to the United States; or
       (B) an entity organized under the laws of the United States 
     or any jurisdiction within the United States, including a 
     foreign branch of such an entity.

     SEC. 11. DETERMINATION OF BUDGETARY EFFECTS.

       The budgetary effects of this Act, for the purpose of 
     complying with the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010, shall 
     be determined by reference to the latest statement titled 
     ``Budgetary Effects of PAYGO Legislation'' for this Act, 
     submitted for printing in the Congressional Record by the 
     Chairman of the House Budget Committee, provided that such 
     statement has been submitted prior to the vote on passage.

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from 
Texas (Mr. Castro) and the gentleman from Texas (Mr. McCaul) each will 
control 20 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Castro).


                             General Leave

  Mr. CASTRO of Texas. Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all 
Members have 5 legislative days in which to revise and extend their 
remarks and include in the Record extraneous material on H.R. 6210.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from Texas?
  There was no objection.
  Mr. CASTRO of Texas. Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  Madam Speaker, I rise in support of the Uyghur Forced Labor 
Prevention Act. The human rights atrocities the Chinese Government is 
perpetuating in Xinjiang are now well-known. More than 1 million Uyghur 
and Muslim ethnic minorities have been thrown in detention camps, where 
they face torture, brainwashing, sexual abuse, and even forced 
sterilization.
  These atrocities are horrific, and the Congress has acted to hold 
perpetrators of these crimes accountable by passing the Uyghur Human 
Rights Policy Act. But we must not stop there.
  The legislation we are considering today focuses on a specific form 
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abuse in Xinjiang: forced labor, an abuse of human rights which also 
has grave implications for supply chains and consumers worldwide. 
Importing goods made from forced labor violates U.S. law, and Americans 
certainly would not want to contribute to the PRC Government's human 
rights abuses by unwittingly purchasing apparel or hair products made 
by a detained Uyghur.
  Among other things, this legislation reaffirms U.S. policy to reduce 
the number and types of goods made from forced labor, mandates reports 
surrounding the U.S. Government's strategy to spread awareness of 
forced labor in Xinjiang and address that challenge, and requires the 
Secretary of State to determine whether the practice of forced labor in 
Xinjiang constitutes crimes against humanity or even genocide.
  This measure builds on what Congress has already done to hold the 
Chinese Government accountable and to end the mass detention, 
repression, and surveillance of minorities in Xinjiang.
  I thank Chairman McGovern, Mr. Smith, and other bipartisan champions 
for their consistent leadership on these issues, and I hope Congress 
can, as we have before, take a strong stand against Beijing and its 
crimes.
  Madam Speaker, I urge my colleagues to join me in support of the 
bill. This is a good measure. I am pleased to support it, and I am also 
pleased that it has, I believe, bipartisan support.
  Madam Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.

                                         House of Representatives,


                                   Committee on the Judiciary,

                               Washington, DC, September 17, 2020.
     Hon. Eliot Engel,
     Chairman, Committee on Foreign Affairs,
     House of Representatives, Washington, DC.
       Dear Chairman Engel: This is to advise you that the 
     Committee on the Judiciary has now had an opportunity to 
     review the provisions in H.R. 6210, the ``Uyghur Forced Labor 
     Prevention Act,'' that fall within our Rule X jurisdiction. I 
     appreciate your consulting with us on those provisions. The 
     Judiciary Committee has no objection to your including them 
     in the bill for consideration on the House floor, and to 
     expedite that consideration is willing to forgo action on 
     H.R. 6210, with the understanding that we do not thereby 
     waive any future jurisdictional claim over those provisions 
     or their subject matters.
       In the event a House-Senate conference on this or similar 
     legislation is convened, the Judiciary Committee reserves the 
     right to request an appropriate number of conferees to 
     address any concerns with these or similar provisions that 
     may arise in conference.
       Please place this letter into the Congressional Record 
     during consideration of the measure on the House floor. Thank 
     you for the cooperative spirit in which you have worked 
     regarding this matter and others between our committees.
           Sincerely,
                                                   Jerrold Nadler,
     Chairman.
                                  ____

                                         House of Representatives,


                                 Committee on Foreign Affairs,

                               Washington, DC, September 17, 2020.
     Hon. Jerrold Nadler,
     Chairman, Committee on the Judiciary,
     House of Representatives, Washington, DC.
       Dear Chairman Nadler: I am writing to you concerning H.R. 
     6210, the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act. I appreciate 
     your willingness to work cooperatively on this legislation.
       I acknowledge that provisions of the bill fall within the 
     jurisdiction of the House Committee on the Judiciary under 
     House Rule X, and that your Committee will forgo action on 
     H.R. 6210 to expedite floor consideration. I further 
     acknowledge that the inaction of your Committee with respect 
     to the bill does not waive any future jurisdictional claim 
     over the matters contained in the bill that fall within your 
     jurisdiction. I will also support the appointment of 
     Committee on the Judiciary conferees during any House-Senate 
     conference convened on this legislation.
       Lastly, I will ensure that our exchange of letters is 
     included in the Congressional Record during floor 
     consideration of the bill. Thank you again for your 
     cooperation regarding the legislation. I look forward to 
     continuing to work with you as the measure moves through the 
     legislative process.
           Sincerely,
                                                   Eliot L. Engel,
     Chairman.
                                  ____

                                      Committee on Ways and Means,


                                     House of Representatives,

                               Washington, DC, September 21, 2020.
     Hon. Eliot L. Engel,
     Chairman, Committee on Foreign Affairs,
     Washington, DC.
       Dear Chairman Engel: In recognition of the desire to 
     expedite consideration of H.R. 6210, the Uyghur Forced Labor 
     Prevention Act, the Committee on Ways and Means agrees to 
     waive formal consideration of the bill as to provisions that 
     fall within the rule X jurisdiction of the Committee on Ways 
     and Means.
       The Committee on Ways and Means takes this action with the 
     mutual understanding that we do not waive any jurisdiction 
     over the subject matter contained in this or similar 
     legislation, and the Committee will be appropriately 
     consulted and involved as the bill or similar legislation 
     moves forward so that we may address any remaining issues 
     within our jurisdiction. The Committee also reserves the 
     right to seek appointment of an appropriate number of 
     conferees to any House-Senate conference involving this or 
     similar legislation.
       Finally, I would appreciate your response to this letter 
     confirming this understanding and would ask that a copy of 
     our exchange of letter on this matter be included in the 
     Congressional Record during floor consideration of H.R. 6210.
           Sincerely,
                                                  Richard E. Neal,
     Chairman.
                                  ____

                                         House of Representatives,


                                 Committee on Foreign Affairs,

                               Washington, DC, September 21, 2020.
     Hon. Richard E. Neal,
     Chairman, Committee on Ways and Means, House of 
         Representatives, Washington, DC.
       Dear Chairman Neal: I am writing to you concerning H.R. 
     6210, the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act. I appreciate 
     your willingness to work cooperatively on this legislation.
       I acknowledge that provisions of the bill fall within the 
     jurisdiction of the Committee on Ways and Means under House 
     Rule X, and that your Committee will forgo action on H.R. 
     6210 to expedite floor consideration. I further acknowledge 
     that the inaction of your Committee with respect to the bill 
     does not waive any future jurisdictional claim over the 
     matters contained in the bill that fall within your 
     jurisdiction. I will also support the appointment of 
     Committee on Ways and Means conferees during any House-Senate 
     conference convened on this legislation.
       Lastly, I will ensure that our exchange of letters is 
     included in the Congressional Record during floor 
     consideration of the bill. Thank you again for your 
     cooperation regarding the legislation. I look forward to 
     continuing to work with you as the measure moves through the 
     legislative process.
           Sincerely,
                                                   Eliot L. Engel,
     Chairman.
                                  ____

                                         House of Representatives,


                                 Committee on Foreign Affairs,

                               Washington, DC, September 21, 2020.
     Hon. Maxine Waters,
     Chairwoman, Committee on Financial Services, House of 
         Representatives, Washington, DC.
       Dear Chairwoman Waters: I am writing to you concerning H.R. 
     6210, the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act. I appreciate 
     your willingness to work cooperatively on this legislation.
       I acknowledge that provisions of the bill fall within the 
     jurisdiction of the Committee on Financial Services under 
     House Rule X, and that your Committee will forgo action on 
     H.R. 6210 to expedite floor consideration. I further 
     acknowledge that the inaction of your Committee with respect 
     to the bill does not waive any future jurisdictional claim 
     over the matters contained in the bill that fall within your 
     jurisdiction. I also acknowledge that your Committee will be 
     appropriately consulted and involved as this or similar 
     legislation moves forward, and will support the appointment 
     of Committee on Financial Services conferees during any 
     House-Senate conference convened on this legislation.
       Lastly, I will ensure that our exchange of letters is 
     included in the Congressional Record during floor 
     consideration of the bill. Thank you again for your 
     cooperation regarding the legislation. I look forward to 
     continuing to work with you as the measure moves through the 
     legislative process.
           Sincerely,
                                                   Eliot L. Engel,
     Chairman.
                                  ____

                                         House of Representatives,


                              Committee on Financial Services,

                               Washington, DC, September 22, 2020.
     Hon. Eliot L. Engel,
     Chairman, Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of 
         Representatives, Washington, DC.
       Dear Mr. Chairman: I am writing concerning H.R. 6210, the 
     ``Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act.'' In order to permit 
     H.R. 6210 to proceed expeditiously to the House Floor, I 
     agree to forgo formal consideration of the bill.
       The Committee on Financial Services takes this action to 
     forego formal consideration of H.R. 6210 in light of the 
     mutually agreed changes to provisions within the jurisdiction 
     of the Committee on Financial Services. We are also doing so 
     based on our mutual understanding that, by foregoing formal 
     consideration of H.R. 6210 at this time, we do not waive any 
     jurisdiction over the subject matter contained in this or 
     similar legislation, and that our Committee will be 
     appropriately consulted and involved as this or similar 
     legislation moves forward with regard to any matters in the 
     Committee's jurisdiction. The Committee also reserves the 
     right to seek appointment of an appropriate number of 
     conferees to any House-Senate

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     conference involving this or similar legislation that 
     involves the Committee's jurisdiction and request your 
     support for any such request.
       Finally, I would appreciate your response to this letter 
     confirming this understanding, and I would ask that a copy of 
     our exchange of letters on this matter be included in the 
     Congressional Record during Floor consideration of H.R. 6210.
           Sincerely,
                                                    Maxine Waters,
                                                         Chairman.

  Mr. McCAUL. Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Madam Speaker, I want to start this debate with a simple truth that 
we cannot afford to forget: Truly free trade cannot involve slave 
labor.
  Today, the Chinese Community Party is using the forced labor of the 
Uyghurs and other minorities to help bankroll its cultural genocide 
against those very same groups. The repression taking place right now 
in Xinjiang is breathtaking in its scope and in its brutality.
  It involves the detention of 1 to 3 million people in concentration 
camps, Madam Speaker. It involves surveillance and attempted 
brainwashing on a massive scale. It involves breaking up families and 
taking children from their parents. It involves forced sterilization 
and, Madam Speaker, forced abortions.
  This should be a terrifying warning to the world, to China's 
neighbors, and to the American people that the Chinese Communist Party 
is fundamentally focused on expanding its power, its control, and its 
authoritarian style of government. It views things that it does not 
control, like religion, cultural identity, and the yearning of all 
people for freedom, as threats that must be destroyed.
  Because we have drawn the CCP into our most essential supply chains, 
it can hold our national security hostage while it uses U.S. consumers 
to subsidize its atrocities.
  As many as one in five cotton garments globally could be tainted with 
Uyghur slave labor. In July, U.S. Customs and Border Protection seized 
a 13-ton shipment of human hair--Madam Speaker, human hair--that 
originated in Xinjiang's forced labor system. We haven't heard about 
human hair since the Nazis and the concentration camps of the war that 
my father fought in, World War II.
  It is brazen, and it is sickening. We must refuse to be complicit, 
financially or otherwise, in the CCP's crimes against the Muslim 
Uyghur.
  For that reason, I support this bill before us today.
  I must also point out the abuses in this province are not only one 
small part of the grave and growing threat that the Chinese Communist 
Party poses to the interests, the values, and the security of the 
United States. That threat is global and has military, economic, public 
health, and philosophical aspects.
  I know that many on the other side of the aisle share my concerns. I, 
unfortunately, regret that, during this Congress, the majority has not 
given the CCP threat even one-tenth of the time they have put into 
their partisan efforts to bring down this President.
  We were told that the China Task Force was going to be bipartisan, 
Madam Speaker, and at the last minute, the majority pulled out. For the 
past 4 months, I have served as chairman of the China Task Force. This 
task force, again, was supposed to be bipartisan because I believe this 
is not a Republican or Democrat issue.
  Confronting the generational threat that the CCP poses should be a 
bipartisan issue. It is an American issue against the greatest national 
security threat to the United States of America.
  I believe this failure of perspective needs to change. In our work on 
the China Task Force, we have met with 125 people from both sides of 
the aisle to gain better insight into our relationship and our foreign 
policy, as we speak here from the Foreign Affairs Committee, how we 
need to treat the Chinese Communist Party from a foreign policy 
standpoint.
  This, again, is an American issue, not Republican or Democrat. This 
report coming out October 1 will include 400 recommendations, including 
100 pieces of legislation that have bipartisan support like the bill 
before us today.
  So, Madam Speaker, I strongly urge my colleagues to support this 
legislation. Then, once we get past this election, Madam Speaker, let 
us come together on both sides and analyze objectively our foreign 
policy with the Chinese Communist Party and address the bipartisan 
bills that will be recommended by the task force to address the Chinese 
Communist Party's malign activities throughout the world.
  Madam Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. CASTRO of Texas. Madam Speaker, I yield 6 minutes to the 
gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. McGovern), who is the author of this 
important bill and co-chair of the Human Rights Commission and chairman 
of the Rules Committee.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Madam Speaker, I want to thank my friend from Texas 
(Mr. Castro) for yielding, but also for his commitment to human rights, 
not only with regard to the repression that is going on in China, but 
all around the world.
  Madam Speaker, I rise in strong support of H.R. 6210, the Uyghur 
Forced Labor Prevention Act. I am proud to have authored this 
legislation to address human rights and forced labor abuses against 
Uyghur and other Muslim groups in China.
  There is strong, diverse, bipartisan, and bicameral support for this 
legislation, including from my colleagues on the Congressional-
Executive Commission on China. Senator Marco Rubio, Representative 
Chris Smith, and Representative  Tom Suozzi all helped draft this 
legislation. I thank Speaker Nancy Pelosi for her longtime advocacy for 
human rights in China and for her leadership in getting this bill to 
the House floor. I thank Chairman Engel, as well as Ranking Member 
McCaul, Chairman Neal, and Chairwoman Waters for the support of their 
committees.
  The Congressional-Executive Commission on China, of which I serve as 
the chair, held the first congressional hearing on this topic a year 
ago, followed up with a groundbreaking staff report, and then held an 
expert roundtable event on this issue. We found that the evidence of 
systematic and widespread forced labor in Xinjiang is astounding and 
irrefutable and includes evidence from camp detainees, satellite 
imagery of factories being built at internment camps, and public and 
leaked Chinese Government documents. All the evidence we accumulated 
led to the introduction of this bipartisan, bicameral legislation in 
March 2020.

  It is time for Congress to act. Over the past several years, we have 
watched in horror as the Chinese Government first created and then 
expanded a system of extrajudicial mass internment camps. As many as 
1.8 million Uyghurs and members of other predominantly Muslim ethnic 
minority groups have been arbitrarily detained in the camps and 
subjected to forced labor, torture, political indoctrination, and other 
severe human rights abuses.
  Reports published during the past year detailed an expansive and 
systematic policy of forcibly separating ethnic minority children from 
their families. A Chinese Government policy document stated that nearly 
half a million schoolchildren were attending boarding schools. The 
forcible displacement of children is in violation of the Chinese 
Government's law on the protection of minors and the U.N. Convention on 
the Rights of the Child.
  Investigations during the past year detailed a policy of forcibly 
separating ethnic minority children from their families and the use of 
forced birth control and sterilization, which may be in contravention 
of the U.N. Convention on Genocide to which it is a party. The United 
States Holocaust Memorial Museum had already determined that crimes 
against humanity may have been committed.
  In July, I joined a bipartisan letter signed by over 75 Members 
calling on the Trump administration to make an official determination 
as to whether atrocity crimes, including genocide and crimes against 
humanity, are being committed. We have yet to hear back from the 
administration.
  It is time for Congress to act. We know forced labor is widespread 
and systematic, and it exists both within and outside the mass 
internment camps. These facts are confirmed by the testimony of former 
camp detainees, satellite imagery, and official leaked documents from 
the Chinese Government. We know that many U.S., international, and 
Chinese companies

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are complicit in the exploitation of forced labor and specific products 
include textiles, electronics, and food products.
  Audits of supply chains are simply not possible because workers 
cannot speak freely and honestly about working conditions, given heavy 
surveillance and intimidation.
  Current U.S. law states that it is illegal to import into the United 
States ``goods, wares, articles, and merchandise mined, produced, or 
manufactured wholly or in part'' by forced labor. Unfortunately, 
products made with forced labor are still making their way into global 
supply chains and our country.
  The Trump administration has taken some actions, including sending 
out a business advisory and placing withhold release orders on some 
businesses and entities in China. But these piecemeal actions fall far 
short of addressing a regional economic system that is built upon a 
foundation of forced labor and repression.
  Further, we should all be disturbed by reports that President Trump 
gave a green light to President Xi by telling him that building the 
camps was ``the right thing to do.'' Ending forced labor was not even 
discussed as part of the ``Phase One'' trade deal.
  It is time for Congress to act. The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention 
Act prohibits imports from Xinjiang to the U.S. by creating a 
``rebuttal presumption'' that all goods produced in the region are made 
with forced labor unless U.S. Customs and Border Protection certifies 
by ``clear and convincing evidence'' that goods were not produced with 
forced labor.
  The legislation also authorizes targeted sanctions, requires 
financial disclosures about involvement in the region, and requires a 
State Department determination about whether crimes against humanity or 
genocide are occurring.
  For more than 2 years, U.S. and international companies have been 
aware of forced labor throughout the Xinjiang region. It is long past 
time for these companies to reassess their supply chains and find 
alternatives that do not exploit labor and violate human rights.
  Their failure to do so has led U.S. consumers to unwittingly purchase 
goods made with forced labor. That must end.
  Effective enforcement would mean that workers and farmers would no 
longer have to compete against forced labor from Xinjiang. For too 
long, the world has been silent while Uyghurs and other Muslim groups 
suffered under severe repression.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman has expired.

                              {time}  1215

  Mr. CASTRO of Texas. Madam Speaker, I yield an additional 30 seconds 
to the gentleman.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Madam Speaker, I believe the lack of any international 
response for so long allowed the Chinese Government the space to impose 
this extreme system of repression. But now the world has woken up.
  Today, the U.S. House of Representatives is taking the strongest 
action yet. I am proud to stand in solidarity with the Uyghur people 
and, indeed, all the people living under the rule of the Chinese 
Government, in their struggle to live freely, practice their religious 
beliefs freely, and speak their own languages freely.
  Madam Speaker, I look forward to the passage of this legislation, 
continuing our bipartisan work together to support human rights in 
China.


                Announcement by the Speaker Pro Tempore

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Members are advised to not traffic the well.
  Mr. McCAUL. Madam Speaker, I commend the gentleman from Massachusetts 
(Mr. McGovern), the chairman, for his steadfast support for human 
rights across the world. The gentleman and the next speaker have been 
on this issue, really, as visionary leaders, I would say, the two 
strongest in the House of Representatives representing both sides of 
the aisle, and I thank him for that.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield such time as he may consume to the gentleman 
from New Jersey (Mr. Smith), the ranking member of the Subcommittee on 
Human Rights, who has been working on these issues along with Chairman 
McGovern for decades.
  Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. Madam Speaker, I thank my good friend, Mr. 
McCaul, the ranking member, for his leadership, for his very, very 
strong and passionate statement today. I thank my good friend and 
colleague, Mr. McGovern, the chairman of both the China Commission, as 
well as the Lantos Commission--and I serve as cochair with him on the 
Lantos Commission and as ranking member on the China Commission. And I 
am very pleased to be the principal Republican cosponsor of this bill. 
I see Mr. Suozzi over there, who has been a great leader as well. We 
have been teaming up for years on this issue, and I thank him for his 
leadership as well. And Eliot Engel, our chairman, for his work on this 
as well.
  Madam Speaker, at a 2018 Congressional hearing I cochaired, Mihrigul 
Tursun recounted her ordeal of torture, sexual abuse, and detention in 
one of China's mass internment camps in Xinjiang. She broke down 
weeping, telling us that she pleaded with God to end her life. Her 
Chinese jailers restrained her to a table, actually increased the 
electrical currents coursing through her body, and mocked her belief in 
God. She was tortured simply for being an ethnic Uyghur and a Muslim in 
China.
  Madam Speaker, there are millions of stories like this waiting to be 
told. Nightmarish accounts of President Xi Jinping's genocide. And make 
no mistake about it, this is Xi Jinping's genocide. I point out to my 
colleagues that this includes the mass internment of millions. An 
estimated 1.8 million victims in concentration camps, children ripped 
from the warm embrace of their families, to be indoctrinated in 
Communist ideology and forced to renounce their religion, their 
culture, and their language.
  Rape and sexual abuse of women being held in internment camps, forced 
abortion and involuntary sterilization to prevent the birth of Uyghur 
children, a direct violation of Article II(d) of the U.N. Genocide 
Convention, which states, in part, that genocide includes imposing 
measures intended to prevent births within a group. Forced labor on a 
massive scale that allows Chinese companies to profit, and profit big 
time, from modern-day slavery.
  Chinese authorities initially denied the existence of mass internment 
camps and tried to portray them as vocational training. The Chinese 
Communist Party employed the big lie, censorship and economic coercion 
to stifle any discussion of their crimes. However, documents obtained 
by the New York Times and the International Consortium of Investigative 
Journalists have exposed beyond any reasonable doubt the brutality 
behind Beijing's plans to radically and coercively transform the 
culture and religion of ethnic Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and other Muslims in 
China.
  The leaked papers showed detailed plans--this is back years ago now--
of looking to intern between 1 and 3 million Uyghurs in these 
concentration camps and imposing Orwellian indoctrination efforts for 
those ``whose thinking has been infected.'' In other words, if you are 
a Muslim, your thinking is infected.
  At the same time, Beijing instituted plans to erase the influence of 
Islam in all of western China--bulldozing mosques and shrines, severely 
restricting religious practice, and forcing detainees in the camps to 
renounce their faith.
  The leaked documents also show that Xi Jinping himself directed the 
crackdown, saying the Communist Party must put the ``organs of 
dictatorship'' to work and show ``absolutely no mercy'' in dealing with 
the Uyghurs and other Muslims.
  In one speech, President Xi said: ``The weapons of the people's 
democratic dictatorship, must be wielded without any hesitation or 
wavering.''
  In 2017, February, the documents show he told thousands of police 
officers and troops standing at attention in the vast square in Urumqi 
to prepare for a ``smashing, obliterating offensive.'' Secret teams 
even went out--because some of the cops didn't want to do this--and 
they expunged them from their ranks.
  Madam Speaker, we know that goods produced with forced labor find 
their way into U.S. markets. An estimated 22 percent of U.S. cotton 
goods come from the region, and the U.S. Customs and Border Protection 
Agency has prohibited companies from importing

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some textiles, electronics, and hair products. As my good friend from 
Texas pointed out about the hair, the last time we talked about the 
buying and selling of hair was with the Nazi concentration camps. It is 
happening today in Xinjiang.
  Over the past year, the Trump administration has matched strong 
rhetoric condemning abuses and actions to protect U.S. national 
security and punish Chinese authorities and corporations complicit in 
these human rights abuses.
  Since last October, the Commerce Department has placed over 40 
Chinese companies and government entities on its Entity List, 
restricting exports because of their complicity in human rights abuses 
and enabling high-tech surveillance.
  In July, the Treasury Department issued Global Magnitsky sanctions 
against six senior Chinese officials; however, we want more. There are 
other people that are complicit. They need to be on the list.
  Treasury has also sanctioned the Xinjiang Production Construction 
Corps, a paramilitary that reports directly to the CCP. This summer, 
U.S. Customs and Border Protection banned eight other Chinese companies 
from importing textiles, hair, and electronic parts from Xinjiang. We 
welcome these steps, but more needs to be done.
  The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act prohibits imports from 
Xinjiang to the U.S. by creating a ``rebuttable presumption.'' And that 
is the core of this bill, that all goods produced in the region are 
made with forced labor unless U.S. Customs and Border Protection 
certifies by clear and convincing evidence that goods were not produced 
with forced labor. So the rebuttable presumption is the key to this 
legislation.
  It also carries other provisions, important ones, but, again, that is 
the most important one.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman has expired.
  Mr. McCAUL. Madam Speaker, I yield an additional 1 minute to the 
gentleman.
  Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. Madam Speaker, the legislation also 
authorizes targeted sanctions on any person responsible for labor 
tracking; protects U.S. investors and consumers by requiring financial 
disclosure from U.S. traded businesses about their engagement with 
Chinese companies and other entities engaged in serious human rights 
abuses; directs the Secretary of State to determine whether forced 
labor or other crimes against Uyghurs constitute crimes against 
humanity or genocide. I think it couldn't be clear. Read the Genocide 
Convention. One item after the other articulated in that convention is 
being met, sadly, by Xi Jinping's horrible genocide against his own 
people.
  Madam Speaker, I urge support for the bill. It is a bipartisan bill--
67 cosponsors in all. Republicans and Democrats joined saying, ``we 
want this stopped.''
  Mr. CASTRO of Texas. Madam Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the 
gentleman from New York (Mr. Suozzi).
  Mr. SUOZZI. Madam Speaker, I thank Mr. Castro for yielding. I thank 
Mr. Smith for his great work on this, and Chairman Blumenauer for the 
work of the Committee of Ways and Means. And I thank Chairman McGovern 
as well.
  Madam Speaker, I rise in strong support of this bipartisan Uyghur 
Forced Labor Prevention Act. We really need to wake people out of their 
torpor. It has been reported in the newspapers often, but I don't think 
most Americans realize exactly what is going on in China.
  It was almost 50 years ago when Nixon first went to China. And we 
always believed, as Americans, that the more they are exposed to our 
way of life, our democracy, our economic system, the more they would 
become like us. That simply has not happened.
  We have had hearings on the China Commission. We had a hearing the 
other day of the Committee on Ways and Means, and the witnesses 
testified not only about forced labor, which is clear, but they talked 
about crimes against humanity. They talked about forced sterilization. 
They talked about forcing people to eat pork, even though it violates 
their religion. They talked about prohibiting people from practicing 
their faith, attending religious ceremonies, observing fasts.
  It is hard to imagine that in today's world that forced labor is 
happening and we know about it. We need to recognize that China has to 
be held accountable. We have rules in place now that say you can't use 
forced labor, but this bill is going a big step further in saying 
everything that comes out of the Xinjiang region will be presumed to be 
using forced labor. This is going to have a big impact. A lot of the 
cotton in the world comes from China; 84 percent of that cotton from 
China comes from the Xinjiang region. This will have an impact. We will 
have to support other countries to produce cotton. We will have to work 
to get the Northern Triangle, for example, to produce cotton so we can 
try and address those issues where our friends are. But we need to hold 
China and the Chinese Communist Party accountable for these violative 
acts of our very conscience. We have to do everything we can do to 
stand up for our values and to say this is simply unacceptable.
  Madam Speaker, I ask my colleagues for their support.
  Mr. McCAUL. Madam Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from 
Florida (Mr. Yoho), the ranking member of the Foreign Affairs 
Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific.
  Mr. YOHO. Madam Speaker, I thank the chairman and the leaders on the 
Democrat side.
  Since 2017, the CCP has systemically targeted and rounded up over a 
million people comprised of Uyghurs and other East Turkic minorities 
and put them in concentration camps where they were subject to inhumane 
living conditions, forced cultural brainwashing, rape, and torture.
  Just this week, the CCP released a white paper regarding its 
detention of Uyghurs. They admitted to incarcerating up to 1.3 million 
Uyghurs per year from 2014 to 2019. That is up to 8 million innocent 
people in prison, brainwashed, tortured, raped, in their so-called 
reeducation, which are really concentration camps. If they will admit 
to that, how many more are there really that have been interned?
  The Chinese State is not only complicit but responsible for activity 
supporting the genocidal campaign targeting vulnerable populations 
based on everything from religious beliefs, their language, their 
hairstyle and even their diet. This is not even to mention the horrific 
practices of forced sterilization and ``marriages'' to Han Chinese men.
  Many of these people have now been forced into manufacturing jobs 
under harsh conditions, which we have heard--Mr. Smith and Chairman 
McCaul have pointed out--these products benefitting from forced labor 
have found their ways into our supply chains through major brands and 
corporations as it becomes increasingly difficult for companies to 
conduct due diligence investigations in China.
  Further, we must recognize that the Chinese diplomatic presence 
globally is also engaged in this effort. A wealth of evidence is 
available to suggest that Chinese embassies and consulates around the 
world are actively seeking to force Chinese Uyghurs to return to 
mainland China, often to renew their passports, only to be abducted 
immediately and sent to one of the camps.
  As Members of Congress, we have a moral obligation to ensure that the 
state-sponsored campaign of ethnic cleansing and forced labor--
reminiscent of the concentration camps of the Nazi regime, when we 
swore as a world community, ``never again''--are shut down and punished 
to the full extent of U.S. and international law.
  The business community of America also has a moral obligation, from 
manufacturing to Hollywood, to not appease China in the name of profit.
  Madam Speaker, as an original cosponsor of this bill, I support its 
passage in the House and encourage its timely consideration in the 
Senate.
  Mr. CASTRO of Texas. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the 
gentlewoman from California (Ms. Pelosi), our distinguished Speaker of 
the House.
  Ms. PELOSI. Madam Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Texas (Mr. 
Castro) for yielding, and for bringing this important legislation to 
the floor and giving us a chance to honor our values in the most 
bipartisan way.
  One of the saddest things of all of this is how many people are 
suffering.

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One of the joys of it is that it has enabled us to work together over 
the years.
  Madam Speaker, I would ask the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Smith) 
how many years--at least, 30, working together on this subject.
  Madam Speaker, I rise in support of the Uyghur Forced Labor 
Prevention Act and the Uyghur Forced Labor Disclosure Act, two strong 
bipartisan bills to send a strong message to Beijing and to the world 
that the U.S. Congress will not allow human rights to be sacrificed for 
commercial interest.
  As I have said many times, if America does not speak out for human 
rights in China because of commercial interest, we lose all moral 
authority to speak out about human rights anywhere in the world.

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  I salute Chairman  Jim McGovern, chair of the Congressional-Executive 
Commission on China and chair of the Tom Lantos Human Rights 
Commission, a leading voice in the country and in the Congress for 
human rights.
  I thank Congresswoman Jennifer Wexton, one of our new freshmen, for 
her early leadership and dedication she has brought to this priority.
  I thank, also, Mr. Smith, and I acknowledge our working together over 
the years. He is now the ranking member of the Congressional-Executive 
Commission on China and co-chair of the Lantos Commission.
  I salute our chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Mr. Engel, 
and our leaders in the Senate, Senator Rubio and Senator Merkley.
  I thank our chairman, again, for this opportunity and so many of our 
Members who have spoken on this issue.
  Beijing's barbarous actions targeting the Uyghur people continue to 
be an outrage to the collective conscience of the world. Across the 
Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, the Uyghur people and other Muslim 
majorities are brutally repressed in a pervasive state of mass 
surveillance and predictive policing used to discriminate against and 
violate the human rights of minorities: incidents of mass shootings, 
extrajudicial killings, intimidation and suppression of journalists 
courageously exposing the truth, and the mass incarceration of more 
than--and this is a lower figure; I think it is higher, but it is a 
conservative figure--1 million innocent people with beatings, solitary 
confinement, deprivation of food and medical treatment, and extensively 
documented programs of forced labor.
  So if you are out there watching the Congress, know what this means 
to you. The exploitation of people in China has a direct impact on our 
trade policy and on our values, first and foremost.
  Tragically, the products of the forced labor often end up here in 
American stores and homes. In fact, roughly one in five cotton garments 
sold globally contains cotton or yarn from the Xinjiang region, the 
Uyghur region.
  We must shine a light on the inhumane practice of forced labor, hold 
the perpetrators accountable, and stop this exploitation. And we must 
send a clear message to Beijing: These abuses must end now.
  I remember years ago when Mr. Smith and Frank Wolf visited forced 
labor--I don't know if you call them prisons or whatever--in China. 
Their courage to go there was so overwhelming to the rest of us. They 
were able to document what we needed to know.
  Unfortunately, the challenge to the conscience that they brought to 
us was not heeded by all here. We could overwhelmingly win in the House 
and even in the Senate but not be able to override a veto, whether it 
was a Democrat or a Republican in the White House.
  But I remember how brave they were and how brave those prisoners were 
to show them the evidence of the forced labor so we could make the case 
to workers in America: You have been subjected to the exploitation of 
workers there; that is an exploitation of workers here.
  Again, we were proud, in May, to pass the Uyghur Human Rights Policy 
Act, which uncovers the truth of China's abuses and ensures that those 
supporting labor camps, and urges the application of targeted sanctions 
against those involved in the oppression of the Uyghur people.
  Today, we build on that overwhelmingly bipartisan legislation with 
these two bills which, together, will ensure that goods made in the 
Xinjiang region and imported to the United States are not made with 
forced labor.
  Congress must and will continue to speak out against Beijing's other 
human rights abuses, like the decades-long abuse faced by the Tibetan 
people--the Chinese are there to crush their culture, eliminate their 
language, and suppress their religion; their assault on the honor of 
His Holiness the Dalai Lama by saying they will choose his successor 
goes beyond the pale and it is a challenge to the conscience of the 
world--the Hong Kong fight for democracy and the rule of law, which 
they oppress; and the jailing of journalists, human rights lawyers, 
Christians, and democracy advocates on the mainland.
  That is why the House is proud to have passed legislation, including 
the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act, the Hong Kong Autonomy 
Act, and the Tibet Policy and Support Act, which we urge the Senate to 
take up immediately. All of this was passed in an overwhelmingly 
bipartisan way because we respect the dignity and worth of every 
person.
  We have always said that we cannot look the other way when this 
oppression of millions of people is taking place, and we are acting 
upon those values and those beliefs that we have.
  In honor of the millions fighting for their dignity, safety, and 
rights in China and around the world, I urge a strong bipartisan vote 
for the Uyghur Forced Labor Protection Act and the Uyghur Forced Labor 
Disclosure Act.
  Madam Speaker, I thank, again, Mr. McCaul, ranking member on the 
committee of jurisdiction, and everyone for their support.
  Mr. McCAUL. Madam Speaker, let me thank Speaker Pelosi. She actually 
came to our committee markup of this bill. It is very rare for a 
Speaker of the House to show up to a committee markup, and yet this 
issue is so important to her that she honored us with her presence in 
that markup. This is where we come together in the Congress, and I want 
to thank you for your support, Madam Speaker.
  And I thank Mr. Smith, who has been dealing for decades with this.
  I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from New York (Mr. Jacobs).
  Mr. JACOBS. Madam Speaker, I want to first acknowledge an individual 
from my district, Dr. Sean Roberts.
  I grew up with Sean Roberts in Buffalo, New York. Sean is a professor 
now at George Washington University. He has studied the Uyghur people 
for over 30 years and recently released a book, entitled, ``The War on 
the Uyghurs: China's Internal Campaign Against a Muslim Minority.'' It 
is a book that has a depth of research about the atrocities against 
these people for a long, long time, and I want to commend him for his 
leadership.

  Madam Speaker, long before China endangered the global community with 
their lies and failures in response to the coronavirus, we knew of the 
threats they posed, but many ignored them. We can no longer allow them 
a free pass. Today, we are here to condemn yet another of China's 
Communist regime's crimes, the atrocious record on human rights, 
specifically, the persecution and forced labor of the Uyghur people.
  The actions of the Chinese Communist regime are appalling, a threat 
to freedom everywhere, and must be condemned in unwavering terms. It is 
our duty as the strongest beacon of freedom in the world to shine a 
light upon these atrocities, sanction those who condone it, and 
eradicate such evil.
  Freedom is not based on just the ideals you hold; rather, it is based 
on your ability to hold those ideals without fear. I urge every one of 
my colleagues to support these measures and send a resolute and strong 
message to the Chinese Communist Party that we will not tolerate their 
human rights violations.
  No more should they be able to act as a rogue nation, a bully, and a 
manipulator that disregards their own citizens' lives and puts the 
entire global community in danger. Until China changes its ways, ends 
the torture of the Uyghur people, and acts as a responsible global 
citizen, we will not weaken our pressure. With one voice, let's condemn 
the atrocities committed against the Uyghur people.

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  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman has expired.
  Mr. McCAUL. Madam Speaker, I yield an additional 30 seconds to the 
gentleman from New York (Mr. Jacobs).
  Mr. JACOBS. Madam Speaker, let's work towards ending our foreign 
dependence on the Communist regime and hold them accountable for the 
lives of every individual their lies have killed.
  I look forward to working with the Senate to refine and improve this 
bill and endorse the strong measures it will take to hold the Chinese 
regime accountable.
  Mr. CASTRO of Texas. Madam Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the 
gentleman from Rhode Island (Mr. Cicilline), a valued member of the 
Foreign Affairs Committee.
  Mr. CICILLINE. Madam Speaker, I am proud to cosponsor the Uyghur 
Forced Labor Prevention Act, legislation that bans products of forced 
labor by Uyghurs to the United States.
  I want to acknowledge and thank Chairman McGovern, Chairman 
Blumenauer, Ranking Member McCaul, Mr. Smith, and others who have led 
this effort.
  As members of the Foreign Affairs Committee, we work every day to 
ensure that America stands up for freedom around the world, and we take 
action to promote freedom in human rights around the globe. So, in that 
vein, we must ensure that the exploitation of the Uyghurs and other 
ethnic minorities does not continue.
  Most Americans would be shocked to learn that, for years, Uyghurs 
have been interned, tortured, interrogated, and brutally forced into 
labor by the Chinese Government, and then products they manufacture 
make their way into the U.S. market. This bill will stop these 
practices.
  We must pass this legislation to crack down on China's abhorrent 
human rights practices. We must continue to be a force for democratic 
values and human rights in our own country and around the world.
  This is an example of working together in a bipartisan way to make it 
clear that the United States of America will not remain silent while 
these gross human rights violations continue, and we will do all that 
we can to bring the attention of the world to the important practices 
of the Chinese Communist Government by passing these two pieces of 
legislation.
  Mr. McCAUL. Madam Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. CASTRO of Texas. Madam Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the 
gentleman from Oregon (Mr. Blumenauer).
  Mr. BLUMENAUER. Madam Speaker, last week our subcommittee held a 
hearing on the Chinese Government's use of forced labor for the 
production of all kinds of goods through a concerted program of 
oppression and coerced assimilation of China's Uyghur population.
  You have heard the horrible details that we had expressed in our 
committee. We have had a long history of grappling with the depravity 
of forced labor and ensuring that goods produced under such conditions 
do not eventually make their way into our grocery stores and shopping 
malls across the country.
  We passed a law a century ago prohibiting importation of such goods. 
But, unfortunately, the ban--founded on principles of morality, human 
rights, worker rights, as well principles of fair competition--has, to 
be charitable, a history of spotty implementation.
  We don't pretend that it is going to be easy to stop this. Global 
supply chains now are complex and interrelated. It is going to require 
the concerted efforts of us all. But we should not allow complex supply 
chains to justify the chains of oppression on the Uyghur populations 
now.
  I look forward to working with my colleagues in the aftermath of the 
passage of this legislation, that we work to actually implement it, we 
work with the expressions that have been positive from the private 
sector and NGOs, and other partners, to make sure that it is real. It 
is going to require concerted effort. It is going to require some 
dislocation. We may even pay a dime or two more for a pair of socks or 
a T-shirt.

  But I do think not being complicit with this horrific oppression of 
over a million--and I agree with Mr. Smith, it may well be more than 
that. It is time for us to make sure that we take a stand. Make it 
real.
  I deeply appreciate the sentiment on both sides of the aisle that we 
are committed to stop it now. In an era of, shall we say, a little 
conflict, this could be a bright spot for us going forward.
  Mr. McCAUL. Madam Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time.
  Madam Speaker, in recent years, the world has stood by idly as the 
Chinese Communist Party rounded up more than a million--probably a lot 
more than that--ethnic minorities into concentration camps where they 
are tortured, brainwashed, and forced into labor. This is all part of a 
deliberate program by the CCP to wipe out their ethnic identity, their 
religion, their culture, anything that might compete with the Communist 
Party for their loyalties and affection.
  We have a moral duty today to speak out against these horrifying 
crimes against humanity and against the Uyghurs and, as the Speaker 
mentioned, against the Tibetans and Christians as well, who are 
persecuted in the Chinese Communist regime.
  But we have an even greater duty to avoid funding this genocide by 
paying for slave labor in Xinjiang. There can no longer be business as 
usual with China.
  Madam Speaker, the world is watching. I urge my colleagues to vote 
``yes.''
  Madam Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.

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  Mr. CASTRO of Texas. Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume for the purposes of closing.
  Madam Speaker, this is a matter of whether the United States, as it 
has for generations, will remain a north star around the world when it 
comes to things like freedom, human rights, democracy, and rooting out 
corruption.
  This is an issue of human rights. Millions of people are being 
subjugated right now by the Chinese Government. And despite 
international contamination, atrocities continue in Xinjiang, and China 
shows no signs of changing course, including recently releasing a white 
paper defending these ``vocational training centers.''
  The United States should use its unique position in the global 
trading system to advance workers' rights and the freedom and dignity 
of all people, and to signal other like-minded countries to act 
accordingly.
  I am very pleased to support this measure. I am glad that it has 
strong bipartisan support, and I urge all the Members to do the same.
  Madam Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the 
gentleman from Texas (Mr. Castro) that the House suspend the rules and 
pass the bill, H.R. 6210, as amended.
  The question was taken.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. In the opinion of the Chair, two-thirds 
being in the affirmative, the ayes have it.
  Mr. CASTRO of Texas. Madam Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and 
nays.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to section 3 of House Resolution 
965, the yeas and nays are ordered.
  Pursuant to clause 8 of rule XX, further proceedings on this motion 
are postponed.

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