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On the recordNovember 6, 1997
as much as any Member of this body lives and breathes, this amendment is very much germane. Mr. Solomon's bill does one thing. It directs the Secretary of the Treasury to kind of something, do something about the Chinese Communists. My amendment directs the Secretary of the Treasury to do something about the gross injustice between what the Communist Chinese charge American products when our products go to their country and the fact that they only pay 2 percent when they come to ours. Why are we doing this? Why were there 5 votes in the past 2 days? It is because they force abortions, it is because they are thugs, they do not have religious freedom, they do not have political freedom. They are selling missiles and weapons to our enemies. They are buying ports on both ends of the Panama Canal.
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Gene Taylor
Mississippi

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Discussing an amendment related to trade and human rights issues with China.

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