Asa Hutchinson: “I suggest that there are a couple of things that have happened just recently which underscore the value and the…”

“I suggest that there are a couple of things that have happened just recently which underscore the value and the importance of the time we are spending on the Senate floor this morning and the vote on this resolution. Mr. President, just this morning the Associated Press reported that two more members of the Chinese Democracy Party were detained. They were taken from their homes for trying to set up a human rights meeting in Wuhan. That was reported just this morning. It has become all too frequent, and almost daily, that there are news reports of the continued crackdown on human rights in China. These today were detained only for being members of the Chinese Democracy Party, the fledgling opposition party advocating democracy and human rights in China. I think this incident, just reported this morning, underscores the value and the importance of what we are doing and what we are about today.”