[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 15089]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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  (Mr. WOLF asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WOLF. Mr. Speaker, when Congressman Chris Smith and I were in 
China 1\1/2\ weeks ago, all of the dissidents that we were to meet with 
were arrested, many before they even got to the meeting. And some of 
the dissidents were ones who had met with President Bush, and at the 
very time the Secretary of State was there in town, they arrested them.
  I call on the President of the United States, if he is going to go to 
the Olympics, to give a major address the same way that Ronald Reagan 
gave a major address in the Soviet Union in the Danilov Monastery where 
he spoke out on behalf of religious freedom and human rights.
  Thirty-five Catholic bishops in jail, hundreds of house church 
leaders in jail. They have plundered Tibet. They are persecuting the 
Uyghurs. They are spying on this country.
  I urge the President to give a major address the same way that Ronald 
Reagan did in the Danilov Monastery, and he should do it in a large 
church in China to speak out on behalf of those who are being 
persecuted for their faith, on human rights and religious freedom.

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