Dana Rohrabacher: “Mr. Speaker, again, we should take a look at what is being said here today and what the central issues are. We have…”

“Mr. Speaker, again, we should take a look at what is being said here today and what the central issues are. We have heard that if we vote today for this resolution that these subsidies for businessmen who go over there, who close factories in the United States and open up factories to produce goods with the slave labor in Vietnam and export them to the United States, will not "automatically" be granted; will not "automatically" have these subsidies available. We keep getting these words that should make it very clear that is what this debate is about. The debate is about whether or not U.S. taxpayers are going to subsidize American companies to close their doors in the United States, go over there and take advantage of, yes, slave labor. I am not impressed when I hear that there have been strikes in Vietnam. The question is what happened to the strikers after the strike. The question is whether those strikers had a right to form a union and to try to peacefully advocate their own position, which is the right of every person in a free society. There has been no progress reported in labor relations in Vietnam. There is no progress in terms of a free press, no progress in terms of religious freedom, no progress in terms of an opposition party. So where is this progress? We are rewarding the Communist government of Vietnam for continuing its repression.”