Session #99 · 1985–87

Speech #990221768

We do have a human rights policy in the Foreign Assistance Act. I would have to say that if we were to engage this issue. the Committee on Foreign Affairs ought to have some jurisdiction. because that is the committee which deals basically with human rights policy in section 16(c) of that act. So we are talking about preferential trade agreements. we are talking about emigration and we are talking about human rights. but we do not need to necessarily mix them. If we want to greatly expand our human rights policy so that we use MFN as a leverage. then we ought to deal with that more broadly and not narrowly with one country like Romania. Mr.
Keywords matched
emigration

Classification

Target group
None Specific
Sentiment
Neutral
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
90%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Legal / procedural

Speaker & context

Speaker
DON BONKER
Party
D
Chamber
H
State
WA
Gender
M
Date
1986-07-31
Speech ID
990221768
Paragraph
#1
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