Byron Dorgan: “I tell you that because we just released, last week, the Congress Executive Commission on China Annual Report. It is the…”

“I tell you that because we just released, last week, the Congress Executive Commission on China Annual Report. It is the 2007 annual report. I am a cochairman, Sandy Levin, Congressman Sandy Levin, is the chairman. I am the cochairman of the Congressional Executive Commission on China. This describes a whole series of things on China, those who are in prison today in China as a result of advocating for human rights and other related issues. I will tell this story about the Nail House. They call it the Nail House because it is stuck right up out of the excavation. The story did not have such a happy ending for the Nail House. The Chinese, eventually--they must have thought this was funny, the Chinese authorities, by digging around this fellow's house--but they eventually came in and tore the whole thing down and this property was lost. It is pretty hard to take on the Chinese Government.”