Chris Smith

This hearing is the second in a series looking at China's foreign influence operations and the impact on universally recognized human rights.

We need to get human rights front and center, which is what this commission tries so valiantly to do under Mr. Rubio.

I found to be very, very disturbing.

To me, it's an invitation for disinformation.

Nobody likes to talk about that because it's not politically correct, but I will talk about it every day of the week.

I did thank Rex Tillerson for putting China on Tier 3 on the TIP Report. It is an egregious violator of trafficking.

I think we need to continue the effort and we need to continue to criticize--the way you and other colleagues in Congress have done--to put pressure on the U.N. agencies for what they are not doing.

There has to be a way to stop that border guard from beating to death a 14-year-old girl when his name gets mentioned in a South Korean tribunal.

They've got to wake up every morning, the people that are keeping this regime going--they have to wake up every morning with two choices: Total devotion and loyalty to Kim Jong-un or having their brains splattered along with their family…

I am a great believer in hybrid courts.

It seems like it's been worsening since 2011.

We have delinked human rights from the nuclear issue in the same way we did it with Iran.

When it comes to Israel they are obsessed with holding Israel to account for things, for instance, settlements.

Thank you very much for your leadership and for that very detailed set of recommendations.

The Chinese Government has a lot to answer for.

It took years to get an FTO designation for Boko Haram.

Kiir is a grave disappointment to everyone.

After a seriously flawed election in 2005 I met with President Meles in Addis Ababa and, as predicted, he just rolled out the terrorism card as cover.

Time is obviously very short, so I am going to focus on Ethiopia, South Sudan, and Nigeria.

I want to thank Chairman Royce and Ranking Member Eliot Engel for, again, working so well together to bring this legislation to the floor; and Lee Zeldin, one of the principal cosponsors of the bill; and Doug Lamborn, of course, the prime…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise in very strong support of H. Con. Res. 90. The discrimination and violence imposed on the Rohingya ethnic minority in Burma is brutal, horrific, and preventable. I do welcome, like…

I have been giving this example. I mean, how do we teach Muslims? It is very straightforward that we help them to understand the context and the Koranic--unqualified Koranic statement.

There should be a right to believe or not to believe.

Religious pluralism is a necessary condition for long-term stability in Iraq.

I am gravely disappointed that the Senate has one hold on it, and it has been released from committee but it still has not made its way to the floor.