Katrina Lantos Swett: “I want to once again reiterate how important it is that the issue of religious freedom not be cast as sort of a nice…”

Any independent religious expression is targeted in China . . . unless practitioners of whatever faith basically submit to government-controlled religious organizations and religious worship, they are at risk of becoming a target.

We cannot entirely protect, we can't basically protect people in China or in any other country where they are being brutally repressed.

When you have societies that repress, oppress, persecute on the basis of sectarianism and religion, you create the seedbed for extremism...

I do think probably the single most significant thing that could be done to make IRFA a more effective piece of legislation...