Jim McGovern

I intend to reach out to the Moroccan foreign ministry to ask that they withhold any removal proceedings, given the danger that Yidiresi faces in the PRC.

We wrote to the IOC 'to review and ultimately reassign the location of the 2022 Winter Olympics given credible reporting of the mass arbitrary internment of one million or more Uyghurs.'

Last week, Senators Merkley and Rubio, and Congressman Smith and I, asked the International Olympic Committee to postpone the Beijing Olympics and relocate them if China does not change its behavior.

This is not the time for business as usual.

Holding the 2022 Winter Olympics in China and allowing its authoritarian government to reap the rewards in prestige and propaganda of hosting this globally beloved event does not uphold the Olympic spirit.

Each of us has to be challenged in our code of conduct for our own personal morality...

At the end of the day, in this case as in so many others, it is a person, with a name, who is being oppressed.

Today we ask you, as American companies, if you will stand with human rights principles to take action against the abuses in China.

It deeply, profoundly disturbs me because the whole world responded in recognition of the historical wrong of Germany...

And our goal here really is to try to find a way to persuade China to change its behavior.

It can't be business as usual. And it's concerning that it appears that oftentimes the Chinese government's interests are prevailing over values that are universal.

I think we all appreciate you being here. And there was some tough questioning here, I think which is an indication of how strongly many of us feel.

Chairman Merkley and Co-chairman McGovern, thank you again for the invitation to testify this morning.

And I just hope that your company boards and executives will engage in some pretty significant thinking about how you exercise that set of tools in the context of the horrific practices and genocide that China is engaged in.

Companies have a choice on how to advertise during the Olympics in China.

What is happening in China right now, especially in Xinjiang, is beyond the pale.

Everybody supports the athletes. This is not about--this whole hearing is not about supporting the athletes.

We have stressed with the IOC the importance of human rights to Intel and have encouraged them to take these matters most seriously.

Would your company be willing to ask the IOC to postpone the Olympics to allow time for the Chinese government to stop its atrocities and relocate if they do not?

I appreciate everybody's commitment to human rights, but I kind of feel we've tiptoed around the focus of this hearing.

What is particularly galling to me about the IOC's response is its cold indifference to genocide.

If Toyota can do it, well, why can't you?

Now, if we can delay an Olympics for a year for a pandemic--and that's what happened in Tokyo--we certainly can delay it for a year for a genocide.

Now we ask you, as American companies, to do your part.

We hold this hearing as the Summer Games are going on in Tokyo. And we wish the athletes the best of luck.