[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 7994]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                 CHINA

  (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, I rise to express my frustration and 
disappointment with the leadership's decision to bypass the 
Appropriations Committee and to bring up the 2008 supplemental without 
giving Members an opportunity either on the floor or in the committee 
to offer an amendment.
  I wanted to offer an amendment to prohibit U.S. Government employees 
from attending the Beijing Olympics on the taxpayers' dime because of 
China's violent repression of religious minorities and human rights 
activists.
  Catholics, Protestants, Tibetan Buddhists, Uyghur Muslims, Falun Gong 
practitioners and other religious minorities in China face harassment, 
imprisonment, even torture and death. China is actively engaging in 
espionage against our country and now participating in a genocide in 
Sudan.
  The political prisoners in China and the dissidents around the world 
will be deeply demoralized if senior American officials attend the 
games.

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