Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of H.R. 4132, the Falun Gong Protection Act, introduced by the gentleman from Pennsylvania, Rep. Scott Perry. The issue of the forced harvesting of human organs is one that is so horrific, and so evil, that it has truly consumed me ever since evidence of the practice began to trickle out at the end of the last century. I held a congressional hearing in 2012 that focused on ``Organ Harvesting of Religious and Political Dissidents by the Chinese Communist Party,'' though as early as 1998, witnesses at hearings I chaired had testified to the taking of organs from executed prisoners by Chinese government officials. This heinous practice soon matriculated to the most cruel instrument of religious and political persecution, targeting in particular peaceful practitioners of the Falun Gong religion. I co-convened a follow-up hearing in June of 2016 on ``Organ Harvesting: An Examination of a Brutal Practice.'' I noted at the time that the gruesome practice was not limited to the People's Republic of China--ISIS, for example, issued fatwas allowing the harvesting of organs of ``infidels,'' and Eritrean trafficking victims who could not produce sufficient funds were placed on a gurney and carved up in human chop shops in the Sinai peninsula. Yet by far and away the most systematic, and state-sanctioned harvesting of human organs, has occurred in Communist China.…”