Steve Chabot

I have no further speakers. It was my understanding that the gentlewoman would like to participate in a colloquy.

To close. Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank Ms. Adams for her leadership on this measure and congratulate her for its passage here shortly. This legislation raises the profile of this important issue and requires that the SBA keep track…

I have no further speakers on this particular legislation, and I reserve the balance of my time.

I would like to thank the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Evans) for his leadership on this. Mr. Speaker, I have no further speakers, and I reserve the balance of my time.

I want to thank the gentlewoman for her indications that we work very much in a bipartisan manner in our committee. Mr. Speaker, I yield such time as he may consume to the gentleman from Utah (Mr. Curtis), whom I thank for his leadership…

Yes, targeted sanctions are an appropriate tool. They send an important signal and they should be applied against the perpetrators.

In the past month, two reports were published detailing how horrific the crimes actually were that we are discussing here today.

Human Rights Council report dated September 17, 2018.

Beijing is terrorizing their Uyghur population and it's just unacceptable.

I think Congress deserves a lot of criticism it gets on a whole range of things, but the term 'failed to act'--oftentimes that means we did not pass a law, and when we pass laws, that means more regulations, which the public also complains…

I would also maybe advise my colleagues on the other side not to throw the term 'tool' around here too much.

It is not only the American citizens that I am concerned about or my constituents are, but it is the Venezuelans who are not necessarily citizens but have American connections.

Over years of corruption and illegal and democratic behavior, the murderer, Daniel Ortega, has consolidated his power and uprooted democracy in Nicaragua.

Even Nicaraguan bishops were attacked recently.

The Ortega regime has resorted to extreme and disproportionate force to attack protestors, many of them women.

I would ask the gentlewoman from North Carolina if she has any further speakers this evening, and, if not, I believe I have the right to close. So if she has any concluding remarks, I would be happy to yield if the gentlewoman has any…

This committee, the Foreign Affairs Committee, has been very engaged in responding to China's nefarious activities.

I give President Trump great credit for surprising a lot of people who thought he was going to take us into war.

We shouldn't trust this government in North Korea as far as we can throw them.

My advice to the President would be to keep the ratcheted-up sanctions in place.

We are not there yet, but I think it's heading in the right direction.

He is very, very respected among other Members of Congress on both sides of the aisle.

I think it was Bill Clinton, of all people, who said it is the craziest system in the world, talking about Obamacare.

The American people deserve a whole lot better than what they are getting under Obamacare, or the Affordable Care Act

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