Alcee Hastings: “As one who has visited China three times this year, I join my colleagues in allowing that this is an appropriate measure…”

“As one who has visited China three times this year, I join my colleagues in allowing that this is an appropriate measure for us to undertake. Because, clearly, there are matters ongoing that are vitally in need of our continuous observation, our continuous analysis, our continuing observation from the standpoint of what is necessary for us as legislators to undertake, and also to be able to assist in allowing that the State Department, through its actions, are able to undertake those things that are necessary to analyze the human rights violations and report them to us so that we may take appropriate action. In that sense, Mr. Speaker, I stand along with our colleagues who have offered this measure in strong support of saying in the great hopes that it will bring us to a point whereby we may be in a better position when we are speaking with reference to United States-China relations.”