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On the recordMarch 27, 2023
For the purpose of closing. I thank Ms. Wild for her strong support and for her wonderful and strong remarks today in favor of this bipartisan legislation. I do believe that we are really at a point now where if not us, who? We need to speak, and we need to speak boldly. This legislation, again, was crafted across the aisle. We have worked very closely together on it. I believe this legislation will make a huge difference. Not so long ago I was in the intensive care unit. I am fine now, but when I was lying there, I kept thinking about this bill and some poor 28-year-old in the People's Republic of China who is not there being treated in a benign way by doctors and nurses but is being strapped down--not always anesthetized sufficiently--to steal their organs and to kill them. It is happening--as I indicated earlier, and this is a very reliable number--between 60 to 100,000 times against 60 to 100,000 20-year-olds each and every year. This is Nazi-like. Xi Jinping needs to be held accountable. The fact that he and the high officials of the Chinese Communist Party are benefiting not just with unbelievable amounts of money for the Chinese Communist Party and for them personally, but also, if they need any organ, they turn to the very people that they hate, especially Falun Gong and Muslim Uyghurs, in order to procure their organs.…
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Chris Smith
Republican · New Jersey

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