Alan Simpson: “I deeply thank the Senator from Ohio. With the remaining minute, let me just say I am very pleased it was withdrawn. I…”

“I deeply thank the Senator from Ohio. With the remaining minute, let me just say I am very pleased it was withdrawn. I, too, have read the language, and the very troubling part is the part that says ``resistance to a coercive population control program'' deems that that person then fits the status of refugee. We are dealing with China, a country with a population of 1.2 billion people. We are also dealing in this amendment with India, again with one of the largest populations in the world. We are dealing with an amendment that would apply, as of course it should, to all the countries in the world. When we do this, we should bear in mind that there are already young Chinese single--unmarried--males who are even now claiming asylum on the basis that one day they will want to have a family and more than one child and thus come under this coercive birth policy. But if you are going to make a blanket application for refugee status, it reminds me so much of an American Secretary of State who visited China several years ago.”