Chris Smith

We will be holding a hearing in our Commission on January 26 to probe even deeper into this horrific use of torture on people in China.

Torture and arbitrary detention remain grave problems, employed with impunity by the security forces to silence dissent and discourage religious groups and ethnic minorities from seeking greater freedoms.

The Commission's 2015 report comes to the troubling conclusion that the Chinese Government's efforts to 'silence dissent, suppress human rights advocacy, and control civil society' are broader in scope than in any other period documented…

Thank you very much, Chairman Chabot. Chairman Chabot also is the full committee chairman of the Small Business Committee and has done yeoman's work on behalf of the unborn since he has been here, which is for a very long time. I yield to…

Thank you so much for those comments. I couldn't agree more that the megatrend in society is to embrace the unborn. It is the ultrasound technology--the window to the womb--that has made the difference. So thank you for your outstanding…

Thank you very much, Peter. Those were outstanding comments about right to life and history as well, and we will prevail over time. So I want to thank you. I would like to now yield to the gentleman from Georgia, Austin Scott.

Martin Luther King's niece Alveda King has had two abortions. She made one of the most passionate comments and speeches I have ever heard when she said: How can my uncle's dream survive if we murder the children? She is now pro-life. She…

Doug, thank you very much for your excellent remarks reminding us that Planned Parenthood alone is directly responsible for killing 7 million unborn babies. That is a staggering loss of lives killed by one organization. So thank you for…

I thank the gentleman from Texas for, again, a very eloquent statement, and my hope is that people are listening. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Flores).

Thank you so much, Mr. Young, and thank you, as a new and very rising star leader in our efforts to defend life. Your eloquence is greatly appreciated. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Farenthold).

Thank you, Dr. Fleming. Thank you for your leadership on so many issues, including the conscience rights issue. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Kansas (Mr. Huelskamp).

Thank you so very much, Pete, for those very moving remarks. I yield to the gentleman from Louisiana (Mr. Fleming), who is the prime sponsor of the Health Care Conscience Rights Act, along with Diane Black and Jeff Fortenberry.

I thank Mr. Rothfus very much for his leadership and for his very eloquent remarks. William Wilberforce reminds us all that, through prayer, fasting, tenacity, and the pursuit of justice, he really was able to stop the slave trade…

I thank Mr. Kelly for his very strong statement. More people now recognize, especially through ultrasound, that birth is an event, not the beginning of life. Increasingly, because the methods of abortion are so horrific--literal…

I thank the gentleman for his comments. I yield to the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Kelly), a very strong and outspoken supporter of the right to life.

I thank the gentleman for his leadership on this most important human rights issue of our time. I yield to the gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. Rouzer).

I thank Mr. Walberg for his very excellent remarks, but also for that very personal story. That is very, very touching. I yield to the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Latta).

I thank Mr. Lipinski for those very fine comments. I yield to the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Walberg).

I thank the gentleman for his leadership and for his bill. I yield to the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Lipinski), the co-chair of the Congressional Pro-Life Caucus. I thank him for his leadership and for standing up so courageously for…

I thank Chairman Shuster for those excellent comments. I now yield to the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Jody B. Hice).

I thank my good friend for his very eloquent comments. I would like to now yield to the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Shuster), the chair of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.

Since 1973, at least 58 million unborn children have been killed by abortion, a staggering loss of children's precious lives, a death toll that equates with the entire population of England. Despite this staggering loss of children's lives…

I thank the chairman for his great work on this bill. Subsidized by over $500 million taxpayer dollars each year, Planned Parenthood dismembers or chemically poisons a baby to death every 2 minutes, killing over 7 million innocent children…

These diseases need to be attacked in the greatest way possible.

This is a truly bipartisan piece of legislation attacking a terrible pandemic that has cost the lives of millions of people.