Do we need to pass any additional laws or rules here from the Senate or the House to express this to the Vietnamese Government or to the U.S. administration?

This is not a terrorist population that a lot of people are reviewing.

we need to get the systemic changes where they allow people to open up churches

What if the track does not change that they're on? What if they continue to say, well, fine, I hear your suggestions, but no action response, or even you continue to get more and more closings, more and more restrictions?

I'm delighted to have you all here today.

They're big churches, huh?

It's a glaring hole on the human rights area.

But they hold the keys in their own hand as to how fast this will move forward.

I just--I am really puzzled as to why now, why the crackdown now over the past couple of years?

if you're going to continue this relationship and particularly focus on the economic issue, you will find the Congress, if Vietnam doesn't address these issues, you'll find the Congress finding ways to try to impact this on the issues of…

we want to do better on religious freedom, what do you think we should be doing as suggestions

it has to stop or this is going to--this will poison what has been a growing relationship

Are you seeing any progress or commitments on their parts to truly address the human rights issues?

this will create a major impediment if it's not addressed, and I think it's pretty simple to address.

Our goal is not to impose a designation or sanctions. Our goal is to see greater religious freedom

Good. Gentlemen, thank you very much. I appreciate you coming up, and I appreciate your work on a vital relationship.

Well, I appreciate yours, because you're representing millions, billions of people around the world just yearning to think freely.

I think those are excellent. Again, as I noted, we have a refugee limit that's much higher than what we've been fulfilling the last couple of years.