Eni Faleomavaega: “There is nothing in the Constitution that mandates the Congress to say that it will accept statehood for Puerto Rico.”

It took American democracy over 200 years to develop where we are now.

We think that the United States, that American companies will bring a tremendous amount of technology and support to be able to help that.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And I want to thank you for holding today's hearing on U.S.-China relations.

I thank the gentleman for yielding, and certainly want to thank him for his most eloquent statements towards me. I feel a little embarrassed by it, but I do want to thank him. I do want to note, also, that it has been my honor to have…