Howard Berman

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Madam Speaker, that is also my understanding. The intent of Congress is to place people in the classified annex only if the President determines and justifies to the relevant committees that it is vital…

I hope this current situation follows a similar pattern.

I have no further requests for time, and I'm prepared, if you're prepared to close, to yield back the balance of my time, and I will yield back the balance of my time.

Over the past few months, tensions in the South China Sea have escalated.

I have no further requests for time. If the gentlelady is prepared to close, I am prepared to relinquish my remaining time. Mr. Speaker, I urge support for the legislation, and I yield back the balance of my time.

I am very pleased to yield 2 minutes to the gentlelady from California (Mrs. Davis).

I am pleased to yield such time as she may consume to the sponsor of this resolution, the gentlelady from California (Ms. Loretta Sanchez).

Secretary Clinton and other top officials in the Obama administration have repeatedly made clear to Beijing that we will not allow China to assert its hegemony over the region.

I have no further requests for time, and I urge support for the legislation. I yield back the balance of my time.

I am very pleased to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Hoyer), a national leader on the issue of nonproliferation and human rights and particularly our efforts to stop Iran's nuclear weapons program, the Democratic whip…

I have no further requests for time. And I'd like to just raise a couple of the issues that my friends, Mr. Paul from Texas and Mr. Kucinich from Ohio, have put forth in the context of opposition to this bill. This is not the next step to…

I'm very pleased to yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman who organized the Iran Working Group 7 or 8 years ago to focus congressional attention on the looming threat of a nuclear Iran, my friend from New Jersey (Mr. Andrews). (Mr. ANDREWS…

Could I get another indication of the time remaining? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from California has 4\1/2\ minutes remaining; the gentleman from Ohio has 3 minutes remaining; the gentlewoman from Florida has 30 seconds…

I'm very pleased to yield 1 minute to a former member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, my friend from Texas (Ms. Jackson Lee).

In this case, I'm pleased to yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the ranking member of the Western Hemisphere Subcommittee, a longtime member and leader on the Foreign Affairs Committee and a very active legislator on the issue before us today--that…

At the point where I am recognized, I will be also seeking unanimous consent for the same kind of referral of time to your control.

I'm pleased to yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from California (Mr. Sherman), the ranking member of the Subcommittee on Terrorism and Nonproliferation and Trade. {time} 1450

I would also yield 5 minutes of my time to the gentleman from Ohio and ask unanimous consent that he be allowed to control those 5 minutes. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from California? There…

awarding Liu Xiaobo the Congressional Gold Medal would be a pretty profound signal to the Chinese Government about U.S. concern.

Until there is concrete, verifiable, genuine political reform in China, all we should say in our human rights dialogue with Beijing is, 'Deliver us from evil.'

It is also about using the private threat of doing public things that I think can bring China to the table.

There seems to be a consensus among all of you that a more vigorous, vocal expression of outrage at the Chinese Government's conduct vis-a-vis specific human rights cases and the general treatment of ethnic minorities and others, political…

We are all aware that the Chinese Government's record on human rights and the rule of law remains deplorable.

Let me just put that forward as a first idea that has some teeth to it.

The Chinese leadership, which is focused primarily on maintaining power, clearly doesn't understand that it is in China's self-interest to develop a society based on respect for human rights and the rule of law.