I would hope that our distinguished witnesses would address a number of news reports and as well as the Agency for Defense Development briefing for members of Parliament in Seoul.

Could I ask during the last elections how much we contributed?

Let me also thank Mr. McDermott for his role as one of the original authors of the Congo Conflict Minerals provision that recently became law.

I think every member of our panel, we strongly want that special envoy, that special representative yesterday.

The U.N. has such great potential. And so often it squanders it, both by what it allows its treaty bodies to do and by what the Human Rights Council, in particular, has done.

The administration seems to find its voice on human rights and democracy, it seems to me, only when events portend radical change.

It goes to the whole issue of increasingly that U.S. corporations are enabling dictatorships.

I am glad they are making statements--but will this lead to a matriculation from bad to worse, as we saw with the Shah of Iran?

Last week, Hu Jintao evaded any meaningful accountability for presiding over some of the most egregious human rights abuses.

At a press conference on Thursday, President Obama offered what the Washington Post called in its editorial President Obama makes Hu Jintao look good on rights' excuses for Chinese human rights violations.

It is not that you don't meet with or receive, it is how you do it.