Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman for yielding and for his leadership, and I want to thank the chairman and the ranking member for their concerted efforts to get this legislation and like-minded legislation moving forward; and, of course, Jim McGovern, he is the prime sponsor, and I am the prime Republican cosponsor, I want to thank him for his leadership on this as well. It is so very, very important. Mr. Speaker, Mihrigul Tursun said she pleaded with God to end her life as her Chinese jailers increased the electrical currents coursing through her body. Mihrigul, a Muslim Uyghur, whose escape from Xi Jinping's genocide led her to the United States, actually broke down weeping at a November 28, 2018, congressional hearing co-chaired by Senator Marco Rubio and I--as co-chairs of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China--as she recounted her experience in one of China's infamous concentration camps. She testified, and I quote her in part, that ``there were around 60 people kept in a 430-square-foot cell, so at night, 10 to 15 women would stand up while the rest of us would sleep on our sides.'' She said, ``There were people there who had not taken a shower in over a year. ``I clearly remember the torture . . .'' she said, ``in the tiger chair the second time I was incarcerated. I was taken to a special room with an electric chair. It was the interrogation room, and it had one light and one chair. There were belts and whips hanging on the wall.…”