Chris Smith

It would be unconscionable for the government, once apprised of this situation, to then look away.

I think your point about marshaling other countries to join us is good, as Congressman Cao pointed out so well.

The Vietnamese Government continues to be an egregious violator of a broad array human rights.

Vietnam should be designated a CPC.

I can assure you that Chen Kegui will be a primary focus of this chairman.

Even though official figure says there are only 500,000 people participating in forced abortions, but that is probably around 2 million.

We are doing a letter right now to Secretary Kerry asking that they properly find China to be what we call a Tier III country.

I wrote the law in 2000 called the Trafficking Victims Protection Act.

This is perhaps the single most horrible human rights violation and atrocity on this Earth in the history of human beings.

If a family hasn't obtained a birth permit, whether it is their second or first child, the women are kidnapped and taken to a hospital where they are forced to have their babies killed.

China now has become probably the largest magnet for trafficking.

They want to eliminate the house church movement.

Obviously yes. That is why Congressman Smith introduced the Global Online Freedom Act.

Just enforce United States law. It is on the books; I know because I wrote it.

We have a law--I wrote it--in the year 2000 that says anyone who is complicit in forcing a woman to abort her child... is made inadmissible into the United States of America.

I do hope the press takes very keen note of this.

If Secretary Kerry fails to speak up in a meaningful manner, he will lose all his moral credibility to speak about human rights in any other countries.

We believe these hearings will have enormous impact in affecting U.S. foreign policy and also send a strong message to countries around the world that U.S. values human rights.

Human rights, by the end of the day, it is about the people's rights.

Failure to do that will send the wrong message to the Chinese leaders that United States and in exchange, the international community is not concerned about the way Chinese Government treats its own citizens.

He should make sure that he sets the right tone about human rights while he is there.

We have never seen any public statements from President Obama and Baroness Ashton or President Obama and, for instance, Francois Hollande...

And saying to Xi Jinping, you need to understand, we, these 134 Nobel laureates across all six disciplines...

I wish I could say that this was the only time I have been disappointed with the White House.

At the end of the day, ultimately, without executive leadership, I do not think that the Chinese will take our concerns about Chinese human rights seriously.