[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 82 (Tuesday, May 16, 2023)]
[House]
[Page H2358]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          MALIGN CCP INFLUENCE

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from New 
York (Mr. Santos) for 5 minutes.
  Mr. SANTOS. Mr. Speaker, the U.S. Department of Energy and the FBI 
have affirmed that the COVID pandemic most likely originated from a 
leak of the SARS-CoV-2 from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
  The deadly COVID virus was unleashed on American soil in 2020, yet it 
took 3 years and a new majority in Congress to finally start 
investigating the malign influence of the barbaric Chinese Communist 
Party.
  COVID was not the CCP's only flagrant and unsparing attempt to 
infiltrate American sovereignty. Earlier this year, spy balloons 
floated along the United States and gathered intelligence from 
sensitive U.S. military sites.
  Just last month, two CCP spies were arrested, and 36 CCP police 
officers were charged with operating an illegal and secret police 
station in New York City--the two alleged CCP spies only to be quickly 
granted bail and released from custody.
  In 2020, leaked CCP member data confirmed that U.S. companies such as 
Boeing, Qualcomm, and Pfizer had employed dozens of CCP members in 
their Chinese facilities.
  Rightfully so, Americans are infuriated, blaming ivory towers in 
Washington, D.C., and Wall Street for being slow to the punch and 
handing our fragile dominion over to globalists.
  We ought to do better. We ought to protect Americans, and we ought to 
preserve democracy.
  This is why I am unapologetically pushing back on the CCP and calling 
on the House Judiciary Committee, the DOJ, and the Select Subcommittee 
on the Weaponization of the Federal Government to investigate CCP 
infiltration into the U.S. Government and do all they can to free Miles 
Guo.
  In 2017, the CCP's most prominent critic, Miles Guo, claimed 
political asylum in the United States, alleging persecution by the CCP. 
He has been here for about 6 years. Just last month, Guo was arrested 
and denied bail for being pronounced a flight risk.
  In this case, the charges against Miles Guo are simply a part of an 
organized campaign of political persecution brought against him by the 
CCP.
  As a matter of fact, in November 2018, George Higginbotham, a senior 
official at the DOJ, pleaded guilty to his active role in this illegal 
campaign. He admitted to accepting $41 million from the CCP and meeting 
with the Vice Minister of Public Security of China to advance the 
removal of Guo from the United States.
  It is with great dismay but complete confidence that I say that the 
weaponization of the United States' prosecutorial system is spinning 
further out of control, and it is time we take a stand.
  It shows when we have a national crime crisis falling by the wayside 
because politically motivated campaigns designed for nothing other than 
retribution on political agitators keep getting in the way of our 
leading law enforcement officials who refuse to prioritize the American 
people.
  With each passing year, it is becoming increasingly obvious that the 
CCP is accomplishing its goal of insidiously infiltrating the United 
States.
  All the while, perpetrators, the real threat to the American people, 
are let out on the streets, and harmless political targets remain 
behind bars with justice denied.
  Mr. Speaker, I speak for every American when I say we are done 
tucking our tails and being at the losing end of every tradeoff with 
the CCP.
  They take our jobs, use our technology, and steal our intellectual 
property. In turn, we got robbed, spied on, and deadly viruses.
  Enough is enough. Free Miles Guo.

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