Nancy Pelosi: “I want to support the gentleman's very strong statement about human rights in China. Unfortunately, in the President's…”

“I want to support the gentleman's very strong statement about human rights in China. Unfortunately, in the President's speech today, he made a statement which I think, while his statement about most-favored-nation status for China was no surprise, it surprised me that he would go to the length of saying, ``Where we differ with China, and we will have our differences, we will continue to defend our interests. We will keep faith with those who stand for greater freedom and pluralism in China.'' I have not seen that happen, but the President declared that. But this is the discouraging part: ``As we did last month, in cosponsoring the U.S. resolution condemning China's human rights practices.'' Something else you did not hear in the President's speech was that the administration's resolution was a total failure; that the administration failed to rally the vote to even get the resolution to be heard; that the Chinese succeeded in using, with their economic leverage, other countries to join them in tabling that resolution. That is something else we did not hear in the President's speech. Frankly, with all the respect that I have for the President, and I think he is a great president, I was embarrassed for him, that he would even bring that up and think that that would be something that he could boast of as promoting human rights in China.”