Ben Sasse: “I rise because in a few minutes, I am going to ask to enter into the Record a new report released last night by Adrian…”

“I rise because in a few minutes, I am going to ask to enter into the Record a new report released last night by Adrian Zenz of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation. It isn't often that we enter into the Congressional Record reports that are really things that we want our constituents to read, but this report is different. This report is a report that every American needs to know about because it makes clear two things. First, it makes clear that cotton from Xinjiang, which is about 20 percent of all the world's cotton; it is about 85 percent of all the cotton coming out of China, but it is about 20 percent of the global cotton, and it is a lot of the best cotton on the globe--is stained by slave labor. The second thing that it makes clear is that a lot of this cotton is destined for the United States. We are the ones demanding it, and our people are making a market for this blood cotton. Under the guise of Orwellian terms like ``poverty alleviation,'' the Chinese Communist Party is forcibly mobilizing minority labor--the Uighurs--to replace the majority Han Chinese labor market that has traditionally picked some of the Xinjiang cotton. Very young and very elderly folks are often sent into facilities, and everyone in between-- everybody who has a body that can move into the fields--is being sent into these cotton fields for the monthslong cotton picking season.…”