Alcee Hastings: “I was honored and privileged to have the opportunity to travel with this delegation to the areas of Asia that we…”

“I was honored and privileged to have the opportunity to travel with this delegation to the areas of Asia that we traveled. A lot has been made about this particular trip, and I was asked when we were in China why it was that I had visited China twice in three months. I had the good fortune of going to China in January with Congressman Kolbe from Arizona and the delegation that he led of 22 Members of the House of Representatives, and in each instance we had a variable type program that allowed for further information. I am going to come back to that, but I would like to answer the media by saying what I said, and that is that China is a happening. Now that could be construed as China is a party. That is not the happening that I was speaking of.”