Dana Rohrabacher

Let me just suggest that you have not read the task force, the congressional task force on technology transfer to China that was done and voted on and unanimously voted in a bipartisan fashion that totally contradict your last statement.

the blood of these innocent people will be on the hands of our State Department and our Government.

But can you give us an example of just benefit?

I don't think that the people that I know would agree with you, either one of you, in terms of the benefits outweigh the risks.

What saved us from that was a lack of engagement.

It seems to me that there is wealth being transferred here via the knowledge that goes into producing wealth that we have taken, the intellectual property that we have invested, hundreds of billions of dollars in, and it now is working for…

I think that speaks for itself.

Any effort on our part to reach out to the communist Chinese... is, quite frankly, not just naive but dangerous.

Well, I think that is true that we should be encouraging our students, our schools to be taking American students and we should be making it easier for them.

I do believe that we are going to continue this issue and stay with it until the very, very end.

I would request a clarification.

don't mistake any of the criticism that we have made of China with a criticism of the Chinese people.

Well, the Chinese actually said we are going to pay all of your experience if you go over and to that university and get that Ph.D. And come back. And the Americans have been told, if you get this Ph.D. You are going to be able to graduate…

Had Ronald Reagan been the President at Tiananmen Square, I have no doubt that he would have sent a telegram to the leadership of the Communist Party.

For us to try to suggest that we should fill those ranks with as many Chinese students as we can, as compared to filling the ranks with, say, American students that were A-minus students rather than A-plus students, I think it might be…

I am not against legal immigration in the United States and making it targeted toward people who want to invest from there.

What happened in the 1990s and the transfer of technology to the Chinese was a major disaster for the national security of our country.

The transfer of technology know-how is a serious national security problem.

If this was a Republican administration, believe me, there would be... an uproar beyond imagination having an administration saying that really, Congress doesn't have the right to say where appropriated funds will be spent.

Our greatest ally are those people in China who want to live in freedom and in peace and want prosperity for their families as we do.

I want to thank Mr. Berman for this very important amendment, which, frankly, is a policy we should have been involved with all along.

I would think that anything is a better outcome when after a 10-year period you can show that the standard of living that the American people has been increased and improved because of that and the safety of our people has been improved…

But I would assert that among the benefits of the agreements we secured from the Chinese on their innovation policy was increased access to Chinese markets for American products made in America by American workers.

This is not a partisan issue. These discussions about cooperation with China have certainly been Republican and Democratic administrations.

American firms have been encouraged to develop new commercial cargo and new crew transportation services to the International Space Station.