Ted Lieu actually said...

"Thank you, Congresswoman Bass, for making this a priority for us."

"We strongly hoped that China would heed the call to free Liu Xia for unjust house arrest and will allow her to travel wherever she may choose."

"If the world continues to acquiesce to China's aggression against its own people, engaging it without any moral clarity, Liu Xiaobo's tragedy will repeat."

"And then let me just step back broadly and make a final point, which is something that--I have spent my career as a human rights lawyer fighting for the freedom of prisoners of conscience."