On the recordMay 23, 2000
We are all for the people of China being able to have workers' rights and have a decent living. It is pretty hard, though, when we have labor activists that, the minute that they start to organize, they go to jail. I have a list here, a pretty long list, of individuals who, the minute they try to start speaking about trying to get better wages out of these U.S.-multinational corporations based in China, they end up in jail. So I think that, again, Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the gentleman from California (Mr. Sherman) for his participation in this last hour. I think that what we have been able to establish is that this Congress tomorrow ought to be voting to defeat permanent trading status for China. We should have an annual review. Let us keep China engaged, but let us not turn away the only real lever that we have, and that is our ability to set the rules through annual review.
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