Tom Malinowski

I guess my question is, why is it that, at this point, especially with the resources we have given you, we cannot conduct expedited interviews in these relatively few cases where there is an American family that is broken up?

the Department has been very responsive, very present when we have needed help with a particular constituent.

I mean, let me just close with a final comment that I find almost painful to make, but we all, first and foremost, want to protect the safety of U.S. Government employees.

I am terribly disturbed by Vladimir Putin's ongoing provocations and aggression, all with impunity.

But if Pompeo is saying, 'I am concerned about what you are doing in Afghanistan,' and the President is saying, 'I would love to share intelligence with you on counterterrorism...,' how seriously do you think Mr. Putin would take any…

And they do recognize the President speaks for the United States above all others.

that congressional request from Congressman Malinowski and Congressman Wilson to the State Department to actually act on that resolution

I believe China has been emboldened by the fact that no one is minding the shop at the White House.

We are all aware that we are in a contest with the Chinese Communist Party, a contest of ideas.

Where is our leverage? Where is our moral high ground?

The One Country, Two Systems approach worked well for many years. But recently the CCP began to rapidly erode this system by peeling away the rights and freedoms guaranteed to the people of Hong Kong.

The idea here is very simply to say to the Communist Party of China that if you, indeed, suffocate and crush Hong Kong you will lose its wealth and talent to the United States.

Chinese have decided it does not matter. They are acting with impunity against the agreement with the handover of Hong Kong.

I worry that if we do not send a strong response to Hong Kong there are many people, many leaders in the Western Hemisphere that is looking at this and saying, well, if the Chinese did it in Hong Kong I can do it here in Venezuela, I can…

I joined Representative Curtis in introducing a bipartisan, bicameral bill, the Hong Kong Safe Harbor Act...

Unfortunately, this wasn't the CCP's only act of brutal suppression we learned about this week.

On human rights, the President is almost silent. He misses every opportunity to talk to foreign leaders about it.

We need to meet this as never before.

We have two pieces of legislation that I think are equally important.

We will not look away. We will further engage.

Today is not just the anniversary of the first handover of Hong Kong to the CCP, it is also the 1-year anniversary of a heroic act by one of our witnesses here today, Brian Leung.

You have been a steadfast champion of human rights and democracy around the world. And if we do not--you are right, if we do not have moral authority here, we have it nowhere.

We need consistency in the White House, and we need a consistent adherence to our own standards of human rights.

Today is the 23d anniversary of the handover of Hong Kong to the Chinese Communist Party.

I would hope that the people around Xi Jinping realize that he has--he is dishonoring the Communist Party, he is dishonoring the Government of China.