Timothy Roemer: “I am a strong advocate for MFN. I seem to disagree with Mr. Wolf and Ms. Pelosi on this particular issue, but it is not…”

“I am a strong advocate for MFN. I seem to disagree with Mr. Wolf and Ms. Pelosi on this particular issue, but it is not because I am not outraged about MFN, or that I am not upset with the Chinese Government for orphanages and abortion, or that I am not outraged at the Chinese for the kinds of things that they do in ring sales and foreign sales to the Pakistanis or into the Middles East. But I vote for MFN this year because I vote for the American principles of democracy and human rights, where we have as our pillar, in our foreign policy, that we stress human rights more than any other country in the world. Now, if we walk away from China, do we have confidence that the Japanese are now going to begin to turn around China? I do not. Korea? No. Europe? No.”