Chris Smith

If you would indulge us further with your courage and continue to speak out boldly, you will greatly assist those of us who are trying to join in solidarity as a human family.

I am deeply grieved by your story, and yet at the same time touched by your willingness to come here and share this with us.

Economic progress is about persons, not about regimes who are going to do this to the citizens of their own country.

China's one-child policy is state-sponsored cruelty and constitutes massive crimes against humanity.

people such as these people who have gone around doing heinous crimes against humanity will not be allowed free access to American soil.

these people need to be held accountable.

If you could give whether or not you would advise us to work on legislation that would develop a code of conduct.

Hillary Clinton, and I hope the next time she testifies, I will certainly ask her this, she has changed her rhetoric, not that it was ever clear or precise--when it comes to condemning what goes on in China.

I would take my 25 against their 6,000 any day.

It is our humble opinion that without them, the green energy technologies that all of us want and desire today will not be possible.

We need to act. We need to not depend on those legal actions to get where we need to go today.

It is not very productive to spend time blaming China or to seek legal threats or sanctions or whatever against China.

There is no question in my mind. The answer is yes, it will.

Middle East has oil. China has rare earths.

I thank my good friend, the chair, Mr. Pitts, for yielding and for his leadership on all issues relating to health, and in particular on autism. I do want to thank Speaker Boehner and Majority Leader Cantor for bringing the bill to the…

Historically the answer has been a very simple absolutely not, but with prices for these rare earth elements where they are today, recycling has become a very, very important consideration by almost everybody that uses these minerals.

I think it is very significant that President Obama has made it very clear that his special envoy, Robert King, will be part of all discussions and negotiation on North Korea.

The brutality that you yourself have suffered and the loss of your family members... just underscores the brutality of Kim Jong Il.

It is almost like a sense of disbelief as to the scope and the cruelty of Kim Jong Il.

We will work hard to promote human rights in North Korea, I can assure you of that.

And we will disseminate it widely among the Members of Congress, so thank you.

I would hope that clear-thinking people, newspapers, and other media in South Korea will just tell the truth about what is going on in North Korea because the truth is liberating.

North Korea was also just designated this month as one of eight Countries of Particular Concern for its violations of religious freedom.

I was one of the cosponsors of that bill. Jim Leach was the prime sponsor. It was an excellent bill.

The reason for that is during the years of the D.J. Kim government and the Roh government, they actually banned information to be reported about what was going on in North Korea because they had the sunshine policy, which is basically an…