Edward Royce actually said...

"In March, the acting USTR sent a letter to the Speaker noting his intention to launch negotiations of an E.U.-U.S. trade deal."

"I think it is absolutely dire today that our Department of State and we in the United States and the Congress... express to the Government of Vietnam that they are backsliding."

"It is imperative that the U.S. Government send an unequivocal message to the Vietnamese regime that it must end its human rights abuses against its own citizens."

"His voice is sorely missed on the Hill here as one who spoke consistently for human rights, for religious freedom."