Chris Smith

This is all about speaking truth to power in an absolutely honest way to the best of all of our abilities.

Friends do not let friends commit human rights abuses. If our best friends in the world are doing it, we hold them to account.

I say this as an invitation to anyone who has any information about anything relative to trafficking to let the TIP office know.

More than 20 years ago Congress approved and the President signed historic legislation that I authored known as the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000.

But if we do not implement them, then we have just been sitting her wasting our time and words, right?

When the Republicans do not do it right, you know, we got to speak out. When the Democrats do not do it right, we need to speak out.

We understand that there is a lot of people who are not being included in this.

I hope they would not, but the TIP report has to be sacrosanct.

Forced labor is a huge issue.

The bill passed three times in the House. Could not get any movement in the Senate. We finally did.

We know that these child sex tourism trips are occurring.

As Representative Smith indicated, there is this statistic that is either 80 or 85 percent of victims of human trafficking have contact with the medical field, in urgent care and in ER and in other locations.

there is every reason to believe that Xi Jinping is gaming the system despite good efforts on part of our customs people.

Critics argue that the State Department should be capturing more through passport applications.

But we have got to have those eyes wide open and not being willing to buy into Xi Jinping or--what is his name--Hu Jintao and others false representation about what China is doing.

In the coming days I plan on reintroducing the Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Act which has been significantly informed by survivor input and includes a survivor empowerment approach to victim services.

I am particularly grateful to you for your attention to forced labor which is an egregious violation of human rights.

Judge Lung, thank you for that excellent testimony. Your experience absolutely encourages all of us to do far more than we have done.

I do agree with you, Congressman Smith, absolutely about the grading issues.

And so we have a bill that we are dropping next week.

It is hard to believe that the Trafficking Victims Protection Act was met with a--with serious opposition, a wall of opposition.

I think that again betrays a weakness on the part of their ability to sustain their views in open court.

you are really guiding lights for this Commission as to our next steps and what we need to do.

I see no reason why the Chinese Communist Party and Communist China should have three additional consular outposts in the United States.

My main message is, hold the line.