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To keep them from doing this in the future, we would need to occupy the country or have South Korea or one of our allies occupy the country.

I urge the Trump administration to get its act together and nominate an ambassador to South Korea.

In order to denuclearize North Korea through a military option, we would need a ground invasion to find those weapons and destroy them. Isn't that correct?

North Korea also has the knowledge to build nuclear weapons. Isn't that correct?

Thank you to the witnesses for your public service.

The Trump administration's goal is to denuclearize North Korea. That is correct, right?

A balanced budget amendment enshrines a particular economic view and binds future generations.

Is there any indication, we have Burma and Vietnam, which Burma has supposedly made some progress.

I would suggest that we owe Ronald Reagan a great debt because Ronald Reagan insisted on moving forward in an aggressive way to build a missile defense system.

What stopped the balanced budget were the Bush tax cuts. That was an economic decision.

My recommendation to this administration is our policy in North Korea should be that if indeed it appears that, again, this unstable--and that is a generous way of describing this dictator's personality--an unstable character like this…

I do see a blockade that has resulted in some cruel consequences.

not doing a new AUMF is an abdication of our responsibility and our duties

One of the things I think the U.S. needs to do more directly, and I think the Congress could play a key role in a legislative context, is to focus our foreign policy on the world's prisoners of conscience.

The denial of medical care led to Liu Xiaobo's advanced liver cancer and at its core was a disguised death sentence.

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

Number two, Liu Xiaobo Plaza, renaming the street in front of the Chinese Embassy for Liu Xiaobo, I think, is a way that the United States and governments all over the world--I am sure, we will be campaigning for this--for all countries in…

The Chinese Communist regime is responsible for Liu Xiaobo's death.

The U.S. can and should do more to help Liu Xiaobo and his family.

May Liu Xiaobo life and legacy continue to inspire all who strive for justice and democracy.

America must honor its moral duty to speak out in defense of the many journalists, human rights lawyers, democracy advocates, and religious freedom advocates unjustly and unfairly lost in jail simply for aspiring to a more free and hopeful…

I will take my guidance from Chairman Smith.

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.

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.