Chris Smith

We hope that President Xi Jinping will reverse this policy to solve this human trafficking issue.

It would undercut U.S. and universal values of dignity.

I hope there won't be grade inflation.

They, too, need to be seriously considered for Tier III status.

They need to put in place legislation.

It would be wrong for the United States to slough off the issue of forced labor.

Along with the embarrassment of being listed on Tier III, Tier III countries are open to sanction by the United States Government.

Each year this office evaluates whether the government of a country is fully complying the minimum standards for the elimination of human trafficking or, if not, whether the government is making significant efforts to do so.

At the time, I don't think anyone could have predicted that this report and the work of the trafficking office would become the international gold standard and the primary means of anti-trafficking accountability around the world.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, Mr. Secretary. First of all, let me begin by thanking you for raising your voice on behalf of Iranian Pastor Saeed Abedini.

I want to thank Chairman Pitts for his very eloquent statement. Even the grand jury report noted that if Mr. Pitts' law had been followed faithfully, the whole Gosnell destruction of not only women's lives but the death and murder of one…

I thank you, Dr. Fleming, so much for your leadership and for that very concise statement. And now I would like to yield to my good friend and colleague, the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Garrett).

I thank my good friend and colleague Mrs. Hartzler for her very eloquent statement, for her championing the rights of the unborn and their mothers, and for joining us in this Special Order today. I'd like to now yield to a medical doctor…

It is a gross violation, sending someone back when you have basic information that they will be so hurt.

I want to thank you for your testimony, your very, very timely and very comprehensive recommendations to the subcommittee.

Vietnam is the worst violator of human rights in Southeast Asia.

I ask that this Congress will introduce and pass the Vietnam Human Rights Act of Chairman Smith and the Vietnam Sanctions Act of Chairman Ed Royce.

The U.S. Congress must stand in solidarity with these religious leaders.

If Vietnam is serious about pursuing a stronger relation with the United States, well, that is contingent on it starting with one thing for certain, and that is, the human rights situation has got to be improved

We have got to have the U.S. Government stand up for moral principle here.

The Government of Vietnam doesn't want these stories to surface about what is actually happening to these traffic victims.

The Government of Vietnam have convicted in show trials 40 dissidents.

Vietnam suppresses nearly every human right from freedom of expression, freedom of association, religious freedom.

The government in Vietnam was going to recognize religious freedom.

Many of them including Father Ly, and the most Venerable Thich Quang Do, remain wrongly detained today.