TJ Cox: “I rise to applaud Chairman Spence and the Conferees for legislation vital to our country's national security. I am…”

“I rise to applaud Chairman Spence and the Conferees for legislation vital to our country's national security. I am especially pleased to note that the bill includes a number of key elements of the ``Policy for Freedom in China'' that passed the House last fall with overwhelming bipartisan majorities. They include: H.R. 2647, Representative Tillie Fowler's bill enhancing the President's authority over enterprises in this country controlled by China's People's Liberation Army under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (Section 1237). H.R. 2195, Representative Chris Smith's bill strengthening Customs Service interdiction of products made by China's infamous Laogai slave-labor camps (Sections 3701-3703). H.R. 2232, Representative Ed Royce's Radio Free Asia Act, increasing the free flow of information in the major dialects of China and Tibet (Sections 3901-3903). H.R. 2386, Representative Duncan Hunter's bill providing for design of a theatre missile defense system for Taiwan (Section 1533). This key provision, which passed the House 301-116, was designed initially to respond to the Taiwan Strait Crisis of 1996, in which Beijing conducted missile firings into the international waters adjacent to Taiwan's key ports.”