E198 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks February 15, 2012 she borrowed $15,000 and built a six-acre bog buy vast amounts of cheap Chinese products. reer of Ms. Judith Winford, a notable Program on the Stillman property in Hanson. Her bog However, fundamental values of the West are Director of Delta State University’s school- paid for itself after only the second harvest. quietly being eroded: Who knows whether based Asthma Management Program. In this the American flag flying outside your home Ellen continued to pursue her passion, and was manufactured by inmates in Chinese role, she is responsible for the oversight of by the time she retired as vice president in prisons or by child labor? asthma case management services in 14 charge of advertising at the Ocean Spray I arrived in the United States a month ago, Delta counties and 31 school districts across Cranberry Association in 1956, she had built a thinking I had escaped the reach of Beijing, the Mississippi Delta. Ms. Winford is also an national reputation for the cranberry industry. only to realize that the Chinese govern- adjunct instructor in the RN program at Some of her more notable accomplishments ment’s shadow continues to be omnipresent. Coahoma Community College. Several U.S. universities that I have con- She earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing include spearheading an advertising campaign tacted dare not invite me for a lecture, as to join cranberries and chicken, appearing on they cooperate with China on many projects. from the University of Tennessee at Memphis radio and TV and making a presentation of If you are a scholar of Chinese studies who and a Master’s Degree in Nursing from Regis cranberries to President Eisenhower and Vice has criticized the Communist Party, it would University in Denver, Colorado. She is cur- President Nixon at the White House. One year be impossible for you to be involved in re- rently enrolled in a Post-Master’s Program at later, she was named the only female member search projects with the Chinese-funded Con- Delta State University. of the 24-person Ocean Spray board of direc- fucius Institute, and you may even be denied During her extended career of over 15 a Chinese visa. Conversely, if you praise the tors. years, Ms. Winford has served in the pediatric Communist Party, not only would you re- critical care unit at Le Bonheur Children’s When not busy with her bogs, Ellen took ceive ample research funding but you might time out for philanthropy, serving on the wom- also be invited to visit China and even re- Medical Center in Memphis, Tennessee. She en’s committee of the Boston Museum of Fine ceived by high-level officials. Western aca- subsequently served as Nurse Epidemiologist Arts and donating generously to the Boston demic freedom has been distorted by invis- with the Memphis and Shelby County Health Symphony Orchestra. She also used her ex- ible hands. Department, where she was responsible for I believe that China is a far greater threat surveillance and case investigations for Cat- pertise to write a number of cookbooks. than the former Soviet Union ever was; un- More than 70 years later, Ellen’s cranberry egory 1 Notifiable Disease. Ms. Winford fortunately, the West lacks visionary politi- played a pivotal role in helping Memphis and bogs continue to be an important part of the cians, such as Ronald Reagan, to stand up to Hanson community and economy, and Ellen, this threat. President Obama might perceive Shelby County health care providers develop herself, remains a pioneer in the industry. Mr. the Chinese Communist Party as a tiger that emergency response plans for anticipated Speaker, I am proud to honor Ellen Stillman does not bite and, hence, is looking forward community disasters. on this joyful occasion and I hope my col- to Vice President Xi Jinping’s visit this Ms. Winford has years of clinical expertise leagues will join me in wishing her many more week. Will Obama, a winner of the Nobel in the area of health care risk management. Peace Prize, openly request that China re- years of happiness and health. She has served as the risk manager for Mem- lease Liu Xiaobo, a Nobel Peace laureate im- phis Mental Health Institute and Director of f prisoned by the Communist Party? Why did Quality and Risk Management at Bolivar Med- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton THE MYTH OF CHINA AS A have the courage to meet with Burma’s Aung ical Center. In these roles, she has coordi- HARMLESS TIGER San Suu Kyi but not to meet with Liu? Is it nated the Joint Commission on the Accredita- because Burma is weak, while China is tion of Healthcare Organizations survey, func- strong? tioned as a resource for legal counsel, estab- HON. FRANK R. WOLF The Chinese Communist Party remains a OF VIRGINIA lished benchmarks for quality indicators, de- tiger that will bite. For working on human veloped quality goals and objectives, and cre- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES rights with Liu Xiaobo, after he was awarded ated innovative tools for medical record audit- Wednesday, February 15, 2012 the Nobel Prize, I was tortured by the coun- try’s secret police and nearly lost my life. ing. Mr. WOLF. Mr. Speaker, I submit a piece Since then, dozens of lawyers and writers Ms. Winford holds a national certification as authored by Chinese dissident Yu Jie which have been subjected to brutal torture; some a Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality. ran in yesterday’s Washington Post. His words contracted severe pneumonia after being She is also a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha are deeply alarming about the extent of Chi- held in front of fans blowing cold air and Sorority, Inc., Sigma Theta Tau International na’s reach in the U.S. He rightly laments the then being baked by an electric furnace. The Honor Society of Nursing, and the Mississippi lack of ‘‘visionary politicians, such as Ronald secret police threatened me, saying that Nursing Association. While at the Memphis they had a list of 200 anticommunist party Reagan, to stand up to this threat.’’ I couldn’t intellectuals whom they were ready to arrest Mental Health Institute, she received special agree more. and bury alive. Over the past year, the num- recognition from the Department of Justice for [From the Washington Post, Feb. 13, 2012] ber of political prisoners in China has in- the development of quality tools for patient THE MYTH OF CHINA AS A HARMLESS TIGER creased, and the jail sentences have become compliance. Ms. Winford has presented exten- (By Yu Jie) longer—yet Western voices of protest have sively in Tennessee and Mississippi on a vari- become weaker. Chinese dissident writers exiled to the ety of health topics. Most recently, she was a Harsh internal repression and unrestrained guest speaker at the Alabama-Mississippi So- West today get a very different response external expansion are two sides of the same than Soviet writers received not so long ago. coin. The Chinese Communist Party recently ciological Association, Mississippi School In 1975, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger vetoed the U.N. Security Council’s resolu- Nurse Association, Mississippi Association of advised President Ford not to meet with tion on Syria because killings not unlike Professionals in Health, and the Recreation writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn, warning in a those committed by Damascus continue in and Dance Professional Association. memorandum that doing so would offend the Tibet. Ms. Winford is the proud mother of one son, Soviet Union. Now, similar views are held More than a century ago, Westerners de- who is a senior at the Mississippi School of not only by pragmatic politicians but also by scribed China as a ‘‘sleeping lion’’; today, it Mathematics and Science in Columbus, Mis- multinational corporations with large in- is the West that has fallen asleep. As an vestments in China as well as universities independent writer and a Christian member sissippi. Mr. Speaker, I ask you and our col- and foundations with inextricable links to of a ‘‘house church,’’ I have the responsi- leagues to join me in recognizing Ms. Judith China. bility to tell the truth: The Chinese Com- Winford for her many contributions to The Chinese communist regime’s penetra- munist Party is still a man-eating tiger. healthcare and service to her community. tion of the West far exceeds that of the f f former Soviet Union. In the Cold War era, the Soviet Union was blocked behind the RECOGNIZING MS. JUDITH RECALLING RAUF DENKTASH Iron Curtain; there were few links between WINFORD FOR HER SERVICES IN Soviet and Western economies. An average THE MISSISSIPPI HEALTH CARE HON. DAN BURTON American family would not be using prod- COMMUNITY OF INDIANA ucts ‘‘made in the USSR.’’ Today, China is deeply embedded within the globalized sys- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tem. An American recently wrote an inter- HON. BENNIE G. THOMPSON Wednesday, February 15, 2012 OF MISSISSIPPI esting book detailing a year of her refusal to Mr. BURTON of Indiana. Mr. Speaker, I rise buy products that were ‘‘made in China’’ and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES today to pay tribute to Rauf Denktash: a the many difficulties she encountered as a Wednesday, February 15, 2012 result of this decision. statesman, lawyer, author, and the leader of On the surface, the West has profited from Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi. Mr. Speak- the Turkish-Cypriots, who passed away on its trade with China. Western consumers can er, I rise today to recognize the prominent ca- January 13, 2012 at the age of 88.

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