Ed Royce: “Before yielding to our next speaker, I also want to note that this bill effectively reauthorizes and extends the North…”

“Before yielding to our next speaker, I also want to note that this bill effectively reauthorizes and extends the North Korean Human Rights Act of 2004, which I have worked to support for more than a dozen years. That groundbreaking law, which was reauthorized in 2008 and again in 2012 by our chairman emeritus, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, emphasized that human rights, the free flow of information, and the protection of those who escaped are not only important to the people of North Korea, they are also critical to changing North Korea's strategic calculus and trying to force that rogue regime to address the needs of its own people instead of threatening its neighbors. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Smith), chairman of the Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations. {time} 0930”