Jeff Merkley actually said...

"When the Chinese government seeks to mislead the world about the treatment of Chinese citizens and the government's critics, the fact-based reporting of the CECC Annual Report shines a light and helps..."

"Today's hearing of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China entitled 'Growing Constraints on Language and Ethnic Identity in Today's China' will come to order."

"I so much applaud the set of goals you just laid out."

"I think this is such an important area in this global competition between freedom-loving nations and autocracies that I am very concerned about the trends."