Dana Rohrabacher: “Mr. Speaker, today both sides agree on the importance of today's vote. This is not a vote about severing ties with China…”

“Mr. Speaker, today both sides agree on the importance of today's vote. This is not a vote about severing ties with China or isolating China, which is absurd. This is not even about trade with China, frankly, just free trade anyway. It is about a specific trade policy and policies of the United States Government in dealing with one of the world's most powerful dictatorships. The debate today, and in this debate, we will hear about jobs and the selling of American products; and when we hear people talk about that, I hope that the people who are listening will remind themselves that these people are not talking about the sale of U.S. consumer items. What they are talking about, when they talk about this commercial tie with China, is not the sale of commercial items but the transfer of factories and technology, this transfer to Communist China of American factories. Almost none of this trade deals with consumer items. Yesterday, of course, we heard from the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Tancredo) that once there, our business leaders who set up these factories in China end up in partnership, if not controlled by, the People's Liberation Army.”