Political Quotes

“I include in the Record a statement from the Uyghur Human Rights Project in support of H.J. Res. 39. Uyghur Human Rights Project, April 18, 2023. To the Members of the Committee: I write in strong support of H.J. Res. 39. This bipartisan bill would repeal the Biden Administration's Solar Emergency Declaration, a harmful rule issued in June 2022 that protects Chinese solar manufacturers that the Department of Commerce has determined are illegally avoiding U.S. tariffs. As you know, both the President Biden and President Trump administrations have determined that the government of the People's Republic of China (PRC) is committing genocide and crimes against humanity against the Uyghurs and other Turkic peoples, including state-imposed forced labor, mass forced sterilization, and mass enforced disappearance and arbitrary detention. The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) found in its authoritative August 31, 2022 report (the ``Bachelet Report'') that the PRC is responsible for ``serious human rights violations'' that ``may constitute crimes against humanity.'' In response to the Uyghur human-rights crisis, the U.S. government has taken action to ban products made with forced labor from China, including solar equipment, among 100+ human-rights sanctions including export bans, investment bans, visa bans, and Global Magnitsky targeted human rights OFAC SDN designations.…”