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Pete Stark: If I voted against this resolution, would I not, in effect, be supporting the thousands of children that have died in…

On the recordJune 27, 1996
If I voted against this resolution, would I not, in effect, be supporting the thousands of children that have died in China's orphanages, where girl orphans have been selected for dying rooms, where they are tied up and left to die from neglect and starvation after they have been sexually assaulted? If I voted against this resolution, would I not really be voting to support the practice of taking prisoners and executing them and selling their organs to the highest bidder, which goes on in China today? And would I not be supporting, if I oppose this amendment, the fact that religious freedom does not exist and that harsh crackdowns of any unofficial religion, which is all religions except the State, the religious leaders are subject to physical abuse and prison terms? Would that not be the effect of my voting against this resolution?
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Pete Stark
California

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Addressing human rights abuses in China during a debate on a resolution.

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