[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 5]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages 7109-7110]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          PERSONAL EXPLANATION

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                           HON. JOHN J. HALL

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                          Tuesday, May 4, 2010

  Mr. HALL of New York. Madam Speaker, on March 16th, I missed rollcall 
vote 118 on passage of H. Res. 605. If I were present, I would have 
voted ``aye'' in support of recognizing the continued campaign to 
persecute, intimidate, imprison, and torture Falun Gong practitioners 
in China. I strongly supported this legislation.
  The Chinese Government has conducted an official program of 
persecution and suppression of practitioners of Falun Gong for ten 
years. I join my colleagues in Congress in expressing sympathy to 
practitioners of Falun

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Gong in China, the United States and around the world, and in calling 
on the Chinese Government to end their campaign of discrimination, 
intimidation and imprisonment of Falun Gong practitioners.

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