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Chris Smith: “I have asked Secretary Tillerson to start investigations under the Global Magnitsky Act, a bill that I led on the House…”

On the recordJune 27, 2017
I have asked Secretary Tillerson to start investigations under the Global Magnitsky Act, a bill that I led on the House side last year, so that any Chinese Government officials complicit in torture should be never allowed to benefit from entry to the United States or access to our financial system.
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Chris Smith
Republican · New Jersey

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Smith emphasizes the need to investigate Chinese officials involved in torture.

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