Chris Smith

We need to do more of those; not just for stunting purposes, but so mother and child will be healthy.

Last year neglected tropical diseases caused the loss of 534,000 lives.

The focus of child survival is an extraordinarily important one.

It is a sad irony that Cao Shunli's pleas for human rights in China were finally heard at the UN after her death.

By listening to and respecting the rights of citizens like Ilham Tohti and Xu Zhiyong, China can involve all its people in dealing with the most important problems of the day--corruption, ethnic tensions, income inequality.

We urge the government of the People's Republic of China to respect the fundamental rights of every one of its citizens to freedom of expression, press, association, and religion.

During President Xi's first year in office we have learned that independent voices--even those that echo the government's concerns and try to uphold the law--will not be tolerated.

No tyrannical regime need be forever, and that goes for North Korea as well.

We need to expose more.

The freedoms of the people of Hong Kong to choose their own government, to vote freely, and to stand for election are being called into question when there should be no question.

Beijing's attempt to stack the deck against democracy is disappointing, but not surprising to those who have watched China continually backpedal on its promises to the people of Hong Kong.

I urge China to follow through on its commitments.

It is a test of China's commitment to the internationally recognized rights of people everywhere to freely elect their leaders and to enjoy basic freedoms.

We should never hesitate to call on Japan, and especially South Korea to spend more on its military.

This regime survives only because of the subsidy it receives from China.

This will go down in history as one of the cruelest regimes in the world, certainly the cruelest in Korean history.

Despite the international community's focus on North Korea's weapons program over the past 20 years, too little attention is paid to the question of human rights, the lack of human rights in the country.

It's my commitment to all the people who continue to suffer in North Korea that this committee will do all it can Kim Jong-un and his generals accountable for crimes against humanity.

I urge the administration to work with this committee so that the people of North Korea can finally have an opportunity to live without fear, to have an existence without abuse.

More than 30 percent goes to democracy and governance, something that is not surprising given the conditions of Guatemala at this point in time.

About 1,400 kids die daily from diarrheal diseases.

How many countries do we have an arrangement with?

The United States Congress should at least maintain, but much more preferably, substantially expand its financial support for child survival programs.

During the war in El Salvador when the FMLN and the government were at great odds and it was war, Napoleon Duarte, then the President of El Salvador, negotiated a cease-fire, a Day of Tranquility, as they called it, to vaccinate the…

Does that number comport with your understanding of what we are talking about in terms of the loss of life?