Does the legislative branch have a right to limit what the executive branch does in foreign policy?

I don't believe that is going to lead to a free China.

Those in position of leadership, be they in the private sector or in government, do our country a disservice when they gloss over or ignore the actions of the Chinese Government.

We should not be sending technology transfers, and all of these great things that we are doing with trade and investment should not happen unless China continues liberalizing.

Any effort on our part to reach out to the communist Chinese... is, quite frankly, not just naive but dangerous.

The transfer of technology know-how is a serious national security problem.

And do you know what the telegram that Herbert Walker Bush said that he sent to the Communist Party leadership? That is it, nothing.

Well, are we presuming if a President signs a bill into law and there is a restriction in that law, the executive branch, that the President is signing that bill into law and thus any President that does that is reaffirming a…

I want to thank Mr. Berman for this very important amendment, which, frankly, is a policy we should have been involved with all along.

the blood of these innocent people will be on the hands of our State Department and our Government.

American firms have been encouraged to develop new commercial cargo and new crew transportation services to the International Space Station.

Thank you very much, Madam Chairman.

I would request a clarification.

Our greatest ally are those people in China who want to live in freedom and in peace and want prosperity for their families as we do.

Well, the Chinese actually said we are going to pay all of your experience if you go over and to that university and get that Ph.D. And come back. And the Americans have been told, if you get this Ph.D. You are going to be able to graduate…

For us to try to suggest that we should fill those ranks with as many Chinese students as we can, as compared to filling the ranks with, say, American students that were A-minus students rather than A-plus students, I think it might be…

I was working with the Reagan administration for 7 years.

Had Ronald Reagan been the President at Tiananmen Square, I have no doubt that he would have sent a telegram to the leadership of the Communist Party.