Chris Smith actually said...

"I held hearings in this committee years ago when Google, Microsoft, Cisco, and Yahoo were enabling the dictatorship to censor just about everything on the internet, and still do, sadly."

"But things are going from bad to worse in Vietnam."

"Three times, three separate congresses, I have had the Vietnam Human Rights Act pass this House with a heavy emphasis on press censorship and what they are doing to bloggers, only to die in the Senate..."

"My hope, and I said it in my opening, would be that there would be, minimally, sanctions meted out against those who were part of this."