But sometimes greater sacrifice is called for from each of us, and that would include the athletes as well.

I appreciate everybody's commitment to human rights, but I kind of feel we've tiptoed around the focus of this hearing.

I respectfully suggest that moral posturing is--granted, these corporations are not directly complicit in China abuses--they're not Thermo Fisher Scientific, whose DNA sequences were used to collect the biometric data of Uyghurs.

While your complicity might not be so direct, your corporate involvement in the Olympic Games nevertheless does further the interests of the government of China.

We hold this hearing as the Summer Games are going on in Tokyo. And we wish the athletes the best of luck.

And our goal here really is to try to find a way to persuade China to change its behavior.

Now we ask you, as American companies, to do your part.

I intend to reach out to the Moroccan Foreign Ministry to ask that they withhold any removal proceedings given the danger that he faces in the PRC.

In October of 2018 Senator Rubio and I had also written IOC President Bach, asking the IOC to 'review and ultimately reassign the location of the 2022 Winter Olympics.'

What is particularly galling to me about the IOC's response is its cold indifference to genocide.

Everybody supports the athletes. This is not about--this whole hearing is not about supporting the athletes.

This is not the time for business as usual.

We wrote to the IOC 'to review and ultimately reassign the location of the 2022 Winter Olympics given credible reporting of the mass arbitrary internment of one million or more Uyghurs.'

It can't be business as usual. And it's concerning that it appears that oftentimes the Chinese government's interests are prevailing over values that are universal.

We wrote to the International Olympic Committee's President Thomas Bach last week, stating unequivocally that 'No Olympics should be held in a country whose government is committing genocide and crimes against humanity.'

Would your company be willing to ask the IOC to postpone the Olympics to allow time for the Chinese government to stop its atrocities and relocate if they do not?

Last week, Senators Merkley and Rubio, and Congressman Smith and I, asked the International Olympic Committee to postpone the Beijing Olympics and relocate them if China does not change its behavior.

And I just hope that your company boards and executives will engage in some pretty significant thinking about how you exercise that set of tools in the context of the horrific practices and genocide that China is engaged in.