To grant PNTR to China would be to turn a blind eye to the horrors that are taking place each day in China.
Partisanship has no place in the struggle for equality, fairness and observance of human rights.
Yet in 1994, when it became clear that human rights had actually deteriorated and suffered significant regression, the President, sadly, actually de-linked MFN trading privileges with human rights. Since then, as Chairman of the International Operations and Human Rights Sub-Committee, I have chaired 18 hearings exclusively focused on Chinese abuses, and have led three congressional fact finding missions to China. Today, egregious human rights abuses in China are commonplace. Even the State Department's Human Rights Report makes clear that religious, political and labor violations have all increased with each passing year. I urge each of my colleagues in Congress to review the extensively documented China sections of the Report and Staff Memorandum before casting their votes an PNTR for China.