In May of this year, I reintroduced the Vietnam Human Rights Act, which parenthetically passed the House four times in the past, only to die in the Senate.

So, I hope, again, the message to the administration is: just go where the facts take you and, with regards to Nigeria, it is to be a CPC.

we raised the use of torture.

The worst violators of religious freedom globally are often the biggest threats to our nation and that is no coincidence.

Religious believers of every persuasion are harassed, arrested, jailed, or tortured.

The American Humanist Association branded all those who went to National Prayer Breakfast as Christian nationalists.

I think about Nicaragua in our own hemisphere, a terrible actor in the Ortega, a little country with people who are suffering.

Today we will examine religious freedom around the world or the lack thereof, and we will focus on several countries where religious freedom is under serious assault.

I am especially grateful you put India on the list of countries that ought to be CPC.

I urge the Department to do more to hold the Taliban accountable for its gross violations of human rights, including religious freedom.

We need to. We strongly recommend that the Secretary of State reconsider designating Vietnam as a CPC.

I would be remiss not to mention the threat to religious freedom in our own hemisphere, including the Ortega regime, who promoted persecution of the church in Nigeria.

I am convinced that there is more the United States can do to protect and promote the freedom of religion worldwide.

No more slaps on the wrist for Xi Jinping. He needs to be held to account, and I think severe economic sanctions is the only tangible way to do it.

Time and again, violators of religious freedom are given a pass in the Department's country of some particular concern.

Many Africans I met with are deeply disturbed by what they understood to be threats to humanitarian assistance.

Our recommendations are supported by Members of Congress in H. Resolution 82 introduced by you, Mr. Chair, Chris Smith, earlier this year.

China continues to be one of the worst abusers of human rights in the world.