Mr. Speaker, tonight at the President's address, I will be joined by a young man, Eliel Aguillon, a new American, in the great tradition of this great country. Eliel grew up surrounded by poverty, yet he found his path to the American…

I hope that the print-out is not complete. I am ever hopeful that our government at any opportunity would talk about human rights in China and Tibet.

If we do not--if we hesitate to speak out for human rights in China because of commercial interest, we lose all moral authority to speak out for human rights anyplace in the world.

Congress must, once again, demand that our values be embedded in our policies.

They won't respect us if we don't respect our own values.

We want to do it before too long because this country is losing the cement that holds it together, the language, the culture.

The Tibet issue has been very much a part of our human rights in China issue all along.

What I do care about is what goes into their heads.

He took risks, he was persistent, he was dissatisfied, and he was our champion, and still is.

Congress should immediately--immediately--take action to rename the plaza in front of the Chinese Embassy in honor of the imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo.

We have lost 3 million jobs, 75 percent of them in the manufacturing sector.

If you want to do that you should allow us to have a consulate in Lhasa.

The reduction of democracy in Hong Kong should be an issue of concern to America and China's aggressive behavior in other parts of the world.

You just can't ignore any of it, but you certainly cannot ignore human rights.

The most important thing is for the Chinese to negotiate, to be engaged in dialogue, with the Dalai Lama.

However, it does not mean we can't and should not use every lever we have to address the egregious human rights violations.

The administration should also make full use of the new authorities granted under the Global Magnitsky Act to sanction and restrict the travel of Chinese Government officials perpetrating these egregious acts.

If they would do it, it would be a great thing.