Chris Smith

A United States citizen's family is being detained, harassed, and harmed in another country as an effort to silence you.

We cannot tell other countries what to do all the time. We need to be focused on America and Americans.

I deeply believe that America's rise... has led to the spread of concepts about liberty, freedom, democracy, human rights, and economic opportunity.

This is horrifying. It certainly is significantly more important for the future of the world and the 21st century.

So please, Magnitsky--this is a textbook case of where it should be utilized.

Just let me add my strong endorsement to what you just said about Global Magnitsky.

What can we do? What are the levers that we have?

The redefinition of human rights is exactly what the Soviet Union tried to do in the 80s and 90s.

We are really struggling to gain traction in terms of getting other member states to join us in this effort.

We are trying to block them from putting the language of 'win-win' and mutually beneficial cooperation into resolutions at the UN.

The people of China are great people. They don't have the government they deserve.

Now we've got John Boehner, our former Speaker, joining in the chorus of lobbyists for a dictatorship.

It is--as we all know--as bad as it was during World War II, where the Muslim Uyghurs are being discriminated against, thrown into prison, tortured and killed in a massive way.

What's happening against the Muslim Uyghurs--we know that Rebiya Kadeer's entire family is incarcerated.

International pressure is effective.

Where there's a political will, where that compassion exists and you have competent leadership like you, it makes all the difference in the world.

I remember Henry Hyde telling all of us in a Republican caucus that he did it frequently from the chair that this is the equivalent of bubonic plague--that unless very, very aggressive actions are taken, this will get--it's already…

I had just left Jos, where churches have been firebombed and Archbishop Kaigama had a HIV/AIDS or a PEPFAR program pulled from him, which was absolutely inexplicable for orphans--100 orphans--and all of a sudden there's no more money.

I would argue, and Chris has probably heard me do this 100 times, that a young person who wants to go to med school usually doesn't strap on a bomb vest.

I want to thank Dr. Birx for holding that meeting that we had in New York.

I know all of you get it, how important it is to have a partner that has such a low cost overhead.

I authored the Child Survival Amendment, which put $50 million into immunizations.

Every dollar spent on TB results in a $43 economic benefit to society.

What is being done, if you could speak to that.

When Frank Wolf and I and the other two met with Daniel Ortega, three of us drank the drink that was given to us by Daniel Ortega.