[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 22]
[House]
[Page 30350]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       BIBLES PROHIBITED IN CHINA

  (Mr. McCOTTER asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. McCOTTER. Mr. Speaker, as the world stumbles toward the Communist 
propaganda extravaganza labeled the Beijing Olympics, somewhere 
Chairman Mao is looking up at us and laughing.
  According to the Catholic News Agency, Bibles and all other religious 
symbols are among Communist China's list of athletes' ``prohibited 
objects'' due to ``security concerns.''
  Since the leader of the Free World, President Bush, has articulated 
his eagerness to attend Communist China's Olympics, I am compelled to 
ask three questions:
  Mr. President, how many Bibles will you be taking to Beijing? Will 
you visit the five bishops and 15 priests in prison for opposing the 
Communist regime's official church? And will you tell China's Communist 
tyrants this fundamental truth: No good government denies God's 
presence.

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