Well, thank you, and I still think there are a lot of people in America--I know when I was a prosecutor, I did not even know about this issue.

These bills are unfortunately stalled. I think there was unanimous support in this Committee, but they are stalled, Senator Durbin, because one Senator--not Senator Durbin--has put a hold on these bills.

I want to thank you for that and urge you also to continue to support our local law enforcement.

Yes, it is a new phenomenon. Not a new phenomenon to hold things in the Senate, but on this bill we were surprised, and so we are trying to work with the Senator who has put on the hold.

It is about protecting everyone's rights, from a children's writer in Minneapolis to a first-time guitarist with their first CD in Nashville.

The last thing, last month I introduced a bill with Senator Bill Nelson of Florida on guardianship.

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Only the Chinese people will change China.

Thank you for holding this hearing on the report from the Congressional-Executive Commission on China but thank the two of you for being beacons and role models for all of us on the quest for human rights.

I would argue that at a time when we are running huge, huge deficits you have added 300 more government employees.

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I have always believed that our laws and our prosecutors have to be as sophisticated as the crooks that are breaking them.

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I know that Senator Coons raised the issue of intellectual property theft. It is an issue which I have been very focused on.

I think it does trouble a lot of Americans, this idea of lecturing other countries on human rights when we certainly have our past transgressions...