Political Quotes

“Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Madam Speaker, I rise in strong support of H.R. 1540, Mr. Perry's Falun Gong Protection Act. For decades, the House of Representatives has been raising alarms about organ harvesting perpetrated by the Chinese Communist Party. We spoke about it earlier. As United Nations human rights experts stated in 2021: ``Forced organ harvesting in China appears to be targeting specific ethnic, linguistic, or religious minorities held in detention, often without being [informed of] the reasons for their arrest or provided arrest warrants.'' Among those most frequently reported as targets are Falun Gong practitioners and Uyghur Muslims in the Xinjiang Province. These detainees, often imprisoned for their beliefs, are subjected to medical procedures that other prisoners are not: blood draws, organ examinations, and ultrasound scans. These are not for their health. These results are then entered into a database, turning them into a human inventory for a state-run organ harvesting system. This is barbaric. These crimes, these abuses by the Chinese Communist Party, must end. I think we can all agree that they have to come to an end. The legislation before us today, the Falun Gong Protection Act, takes long-overdue action to confront this horror. It directs the U.S. Government to identify and publicly name individuals and entities involved in forced organ harvesting in China.…”