We need to take immediate, urgent, decisive and persistent action because if we do not, China's today and China's past will become our future.

America is great because America is good. If America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.

I think it does trouble a lot of Americans, this idea of lecturing other countries on human rights when we certainly have our past transgressions...

It's either Dragonslayer, or Panda Hugger, whatever it will be.

The dictatorship wants to maintain the current trade, the current profitability.

If the United States, in 1989, had taken a very different approach, if President Reagan had been in office, we would see a different China and we would have a different U.S.-China relationship.

The other commission that was created by Congress, of course, deals with other major problems including political and military as well as economic security.

I am the staunchest supporter of the VA and because of that I am the harshest critic because the job is too important.

this is a zero sum proposition we are at and I certainly take no pleasure, and I can assure all of you that it is not through collaboration that this hearing is taking a pretty direct turn in a very frustrating and quite honestly a very troubling manner for me.

I want to be very clear, and I have to say Mr. Schoenhard, Mr. Johnson might have given you some good advice to listen to the wing commander.

H.R. 1025 (Rep. Walz, D-MN) passed the House on 11 October 2011 and has been referred to the Senate.