"We wrote to the International Olympic Committee's President Thomas Bach last week, stating unequivocally that 'No Olympics should be held in a country whose government is committing genocide and crime..."
"In October of 2018 Senator Rubio and I had also written IOC President Bach, asking the IOC to 'review and ultimately reassign the location of the 2022 Winter Olympics.'"
"I respectfully suggest that moral posturing is--granted, these corporations are not directly complicit in China abuses--they're not Thermo Fisher Scientific, whose DNA sequences were used to collect t..."
"While your complicity might not be so direct, your corporate involvement in the Olympic Games nevertheless does further the interests of the government of China."
"But sometimes greater sacrifice is called for from each of us, and that would include the athletes as well."
"I intend to reach out to the Moroccan Foreign Ministry to ask that they withhold any removal proceedings given the danger that he faces in the PRC."
"We hold this hearing as the Summer Games are going on in Tokyo. And we wish the athletes the best of luck."
"Now we ask you, as American companies, to do your part."
"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."
"If Toyota can do it, well, why can't you?"
"What is particularly galling to me about the IOC's response is its cold indifference to genocide."
"I appreciate everybody's commitment to human rights, but I kind of feel we've tiptoed around the focus of this hearing."