Nancy Pelosi: “I want to commend the original author of this legislation, the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Wolf), for his outstanding…”

“I want to commend the original author of this legislation, the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Wolf), for his outstanding leadership on religious freedom, and indeed, human rights throughout the world. I would say to the gentleman, I think it is clear to all of us that he is the conscience of this Congress, and in the case of religious freedom he has fought against persecution throughout the world and seen it firsthand, whether it is nuns and monks, Buddhist nuns and monks in Tibet, the oppression of Christians in the Sudan, antisemitism throughout the world, other persecution that he has fought against. I want to commend the chairman of the committee, the gentleman from New York (Mr. Gilman), for his leadership in bringing the original legislation, which I frankly prefer, but it clearly did not share the support that this final product has; and I thank the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Smith) once again for his outstanding leadership on human rights.”