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Tom Lantos: “I would like to say a word comparing our Speaker to the subject of this resolution, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. These are two…”

On the recordOctober 2, 2007
I would like to say a word comparing our Speaker to the subject of this resolution, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. These are two extraordinary women of deep courage and commitment, but there is one profound difference in their political lives: when Members of this body elected Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of this House, she assumed that position. When the people of Burma elected Daw Aung San Suu Kyi to serve as their Prime Minister, she was subjected to onerous imprisonment and persecution for almost two decades. It gives me a great deal of pleasure and pride to yield such time as she may consume to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, an indefatigable fighter for human rights and the champion of a fellow woman political leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.
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Comparing Nancy Pelosi and Daw Aung San Suu Kyi during a discussion on human rights.

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