George Miller: “I feel like the old saying about closing the door after the cow has run out of the barn. The real vote was taken a few…”

“I feel like the old saying about closing the door after the cow has run out of the barn. The real vote was taken a few moments ago. With that vote, the flame of liberty and the flame of democracy and the flame of human rights that we set forth in the world, the beacon that we send forth from the Statute of Liberty and from our Constitution, from our Declaration of Independence, from this body and our system of government, all grew a little bit dimmer for those nations who look to us for leadership. As the gentlewoman from California said in her closing statement, one of the real questions we have to ask ourselves and that we will be held accountable for with respect to our constituents with the vote just taken was whether or not China plays by the rules. The record today is overwhelming and compelling that they do not play by the rules. They do not play by the rules of most of the rest of the international community, and they certainly do not play by the rules that we believe should be in place with respect to free trade and fair trade, with respect to human rights, to the promotion of democracy, to the protection of intellectual properties and ideas, nuclear proliferation, and how important that is to the future of this world, to the stealing of people's technology, of nations' technologies. No, they do not have to play by those rules. That fact was ratified in the previous vote.”