Sherrod Brown: “before we talk about the ``Made in China'' report and the literally slave labor conditions under which literally…”

“before we talk about the ``Made in China'' report and the literally slave labor conditions under which literally millions of young women in China, almost all young and mostly women, I want to follow up on some things that the Democratic Whip talked about in terms of human rights. We have, for 10 years, been engaging with China. We have traded with China. We have opened our markets to China. During that entire 10-year period, the Bush administration, even the Reagan administration before the Bush administration, the Clinton administration have told us over and over that China would be freer, that engaging with China would really help. You can look in these last 10 years and see how things are growing worse, they are continuing to go downhill. The gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Bonior) mentioned the State Department's Country Report outlining the conditions in China actually were worse this past year. As China has tried to woo us to get into the World Trade Organization, conditions were worse last year than the year before.”