Eleanor Holmes Norton: “I appreciate the additional time. Tibetan children, monks, and exiles lined the streets to greet our delegation in 2008.…”

“I appreciate the additional time. Tibetan children, monks, and exiles lined the streets to greet our delegation in 2008. Our congressional visit heightened attention to continuing cultural genocide and brutality in Tibet. Our delegation had a meeting and lunch with the Nobel Prize-winning Dalai Lama and his government in exile. The Dalai Lama and his people have nothing to fight with except their own nonviolent determination and the willingness of free people everywhere to raise their voices. The Tibet Policy and Support Act before us today is important to convey and reinforce the understanding that the United States will never cease working to assure complete freedom for the Dalai Lama and his people. Mr. McCAUL. Madam Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.”