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

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

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

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…

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

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

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

They're big churches, huh?

I'm delighted to have you all here today.

Why--why is this happening now? Why would they take this step backward at this point in time?

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?

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

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?

We've got a high refugee number, and we're nowhere near filling it.

I apologize for starting the hearing 25 minutes late.

Three years ago, the Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities... became concerned that there was no single accountable official in the DOD specifically responsible for combatting terrorism.

You are? You are the one?

I personally believe that the independent commission that the President has proposed is a good thing to do.