Jim McGovern actually said...

Here, I call on the U.S. Congress to pass a resolution to direct the State Department to at least come up with conditional support of China's membership on the U.N. Human Rights Council.

Context

Calls for Congress to condition U.S. support for China's UN Human Rights Council membership on Liu Xiaobo's release.

12/11/2012

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