I rise in strong support of this legislation. I was very privileged to work with the gentleman from Virginia and the gentleman from New Jersey and the gentleman from New York and others in what ended up to be a bipartisan way in putting together H.R. 2095. the China Human Rights and Democracy Act. One of the key items in H.R. 2095 is our goal of ensuring that those who are responsible for religious persecution are not able to receive visas to come into this country. I say that as one who is strongly committed to what I still believe is the most powerful force for positive change in the 5.000year history of China. that being economic reform. Our commercial ties there are key to that.