Chris Smith actually said...

"Today's silence flies in the face of an American history where Theodore Roosevelt complained about Soviet pogroms, and Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter raised human rights issues."

"We cannot get the State Department to do it."

"I think the risks of China remaining a dictatorship, for China itself and for the world, greater by orders of magnitude than they were during the years that Ronald Reagan tried to deal with the Soviet..."

"This would not be a non-binding resolution. Instead, it would be binding legislation flatly stating congressional judgment that advancing human rights and democratic values in China is decidedly in Am..."