The Clinton policy of treating Communist China as a friend... has resulted in putting the United States in grave danger.

I rise before you today to speak in favor of equal employment opportunities for our veterans.

I rise to express my opposition to House Joint Resolution 57 disapproving the extension of nondiscriminatory treatment (or normal trade relations) to the People's Republic of China.

As we engage China economically, we should work to engage China in a policy that allows Tibetan peoples, cultures, and beliefs to flourish.

The continued extension of normal trade relations (NTR) to China will do much to benefit the United States domestically, while engagement with China remains the most powerful means of advancing our interests abroad.

China also plays an extremely important role in guaranteeing regional security and stability from the Korean Peninsular to the Indian Subcontinent.

Let us also remember that over the past decade, American exports to China have quadrupled to $14.3 billion.

Approximately 400,000 American jobs depend on trade with China.

Yet only further engagement with China will allow the United States the opportunity to advocate on behalf of its own interests and those of the Chinese people.

It has been through their perseverance that they have garnered the resources necessary to establish and operate this training facility for the benefit of all the citizens of Oakland.

I wish to extend to the Eastmont Computing Center, its staff, donors and support volunteers sincere best wishes for success as they begin to deliver technology access and employment training services to the citizens of Oakland.

OCCUR created the Eastmont Computing Center (ECC) to serve as a community resource on information technologies in order to provide universal computer and Internet access and employment focused training to Oakland citizens.

The Center is one of only three California recipients of the highly competitive U.S. Department of Commerce Telecommunications and Information Infrastructure Assistance Program grants.

I wish to commend the management and staff of the Eastmont Computing Center for their tireless work and for their diligence.

This multi-million dollar computing center is a project of The Oakland Citizens Committee for Urban Renewal (OCCUR), which was established in Oakland, California in 1954 for the purpose of raising the quality of life for all of Oakland's…

The Eastmont Computing Center provides cutting-edge information technology training to youth and other residents of under-served communities.

The Center provides a broad range of unique skills and employment training programs to youth, senior citizens, and community-based organizations.

In Communist China, we have a ruthless dictatorship that is using commercial space activities to help its military someday compete with the United States.