The title of today's hearing is 'Tiananmen at 30: Examining the Evolution of Repression in China.'

The World Must Take a Stand Against China's War on Religion.

Three decades ago, if you had acted on principle and with foresight, you would have demanded that China acknowledge its crimes in Tiananmen Square.

None of us can erase that from our minds and no matter how much the Chinese government wants to rewrite history...

The existence of CCP's firewall is the biggest threat to the truth of Tiananmen 1989.

We remember with sadness the crackdown that followed as the People's Liberation Army was unleashed on its own people.

We can no longer afford to separate human rights from our other interests.

Either you stand with the 'Tank Man' or you stand with the tank. There is no middle ground.

We cannot allow economic interests with China to blind us to the moral injustices committed by China.

I think we clearly have to resist that. That's not the America that we know.

People don't understand about the journalists that have been detained.

Today we see an increasingly aggressive Chinese Communist government that is more repressive in domestic policy.

Opening Statement of Hon. James P. McGovern, a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts; Chair, Congressional-Executive Commission on China.

That is the most ridiculous and ironic part of the Chinese Communist government--that you will have journalists studying journalism in a place where you cannot even make an expression of discontent.

I want to thank my cochair, Senator Marco Rubio, of the China Commission, and Congressman Chris Smith, my cochair on the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission.

We must use opportunities like this to speak about the true story of the Tiananmen Square massacre.

We mourn with you and will do our part to make sure that our country does not continue to slip into amnesia about what happened 30 years ago.

Together with a handful of protesters, I was beaten by supporters of the CCP's Olympic Torch relay on a San Francisco pier.

I've chaired 68 congressional hearings on human rights abuses in China over the years.

I ask this committee to offer a place, here on Capitol Hill, for Liu Xiaobo.

You, the leaders of the free world, acquiesce to this bullying and ignore the inconvenient truth, which is that Taiwan is in fact a successful, independent country, with its own army, currency, government and people.

Dictatorships do not matriculate to democracies because you give them more money. As a matter of fact, I believe it makes them worse.

We are outraged about the human rights abuses that continue to occur.

The U.S. cannot be neutral when human rights are trampled with impunity or when crimes against humanity are being committed as we speak.

There is not a lot we always all agree on. But we agree on the importance of human rights in Hong Kong.