Ed Royce

We must not give food aid to North Korea. Doing so is the same as providing funding for North Korea's nuclear program.

Today transnational criminals are diversifying.

A reward on your head creates for the individual significant angst.

This is money well spent.

I have introduced legislation, H.R. 4077, that would target transnational organized crime figures.

Then let me ask you, if this is reasonable, what would you deem reasonable for a completed Lehman liquidation?

Instead of the new food aid, which I think, just as in the past, is going to get to the military and help prop them up, why not a serious effort to, once and for all, change this situation since the aid never gets out to the 'No-Go' areas…

I worked long and hard to try to assist the two of them.

It is time for the United Nations to step up and stop writing just short comments and commentaries on this.

You have a system of concentration camps akin to the Soviet Gulag system.

It is time for a change.

I passed a resolution here. I have written to 200 parliamentarians, 62 different countries that are part of our International Parliamentarian Coalition on North Korean Refugees and Human Rights.

This is an emergency. The Chinese Government is set to repatriate many North Korean refugees, so there is an urgency to this hearing.

Royce, Hon. Edward, a U.S. Representative from California; Member, Congressional-Executive Commission on China.

Seventy-five percent of these refugees are women. Up to 90 percent, according to some sources, end up being trafficked.

China must conform to international norms and allow these refugees safe passage to the Republic of Korea, or grant them immediate asylum.

Why isn't it time to implode this regime or put the kind of pressure that, in the past, worked on bringing down other regimes?

The severe physical abuse that is visited on those who are simply suspected or accused of not being in step with the regime...

I think it was a real tragedy that George Bush, who cared and actually met with defectors...

It's because, despite its international obligations, China does not follow that international law and it forcibly repatriates North Korean refugees.

Obama can send a very strong signal that we want to get food aid, we want to help you...

But it is not that difficult. I mean, Mr. Shin--you can see the burns on his body.

So I believe this bill is necessary as a first step to redoubling our efforts to better understand the extent of the Iranian activity here at home.

The Iranian threat isn't just thousands of miles away. It is close to home.

The dangerous activities of Iran and Hezbollah so near our borders demand a whole of government strategy.