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December 8, 2011 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H8299 As he knows, Congressman WALZ has Street millionaires, not slash Medicare nese medical schools taught that many oth- been working hard on this, and I know benefits, not layoff thousands of peo- erwise wicked criminals volunteered their that he will be very inclined to work ple. organs as a final penance. Right after the first shots the van door was with you and with the committees of It’s time to stop putting Wall Street thrust open and two men with white surgical jurisdiction; and I will certainly be first and before Main Street. Wash- coats thrown over their uniforms carried a able to work with you as well on this ington ought not go on vacation until body in, the head and feet still twitching issue because, as I say, Congressman we take care of this problem. slightly. The young doctor noted that the WALZ has worked very hard on this. f wound was on the right side of the chest as I think all of us agree, as you just in- he had expected. When body #3 was laid CHINA ORGAN HARVESTING dicated, that no Member of Congress down, he went to work. (Mr. PITTS asked and was given per- Male, 40-ish, Han Chinese. While the other ought to be using insider information retail organs in the van were slated for the to trade in the stock market to dis- mission to address the House for 1 profitable foreigner market, the doctor had advantage, obviously, others who are minute and to revise and extend his re- seen the paperwork indicating this kidney trading in the stock market. So I marks.) was tissue-matched for transplant into a 50– thank the gentleman for his comments, Mr. PITTS. Madam Speaker, an arti- year-old Chinese man. Without the trans- look forward to working with him and, cle in last Monday’s Weekly Standard plant, that man would die. With it, the same again, in closing, hope that we can reveals the systematic execution and man would rise miraculously from his hos- pital bed and go on to have a normal life for reach bipartisan agreement on so many harvesting of organs in China’s prisons. The article provides firsthand ac- 25 years or so. By 2016, given all the anti-tis- major pieces of legislation that we sue-rejection drug advances in China, they need to pass prior to leaving this. counts of the targeted elimination of could theoretically replace the liver, lungs, I will tell the gentleman I hope his religious prisoners, prisoners of con- or heart—maybe buy that man another 10 to side agrees, my side will not want to science, and political opponents of the 15 years. adjourn, nor will it support adjourn- regime. Minorities, including Falun Body #3 had no special characteristics save ment, until such time as we act on the Gong, Uyghurs, House Christians, and an angry purple line on the neck. The doctor unemployment insurance and the mid- Tibetans have been executed, followed recognized the forensics. Sometimes the po- by organ transplant surgeries—some lice would twist a wire around a prisoner’s dle class tax cuts. throat to prevent him from speaking up in I yield back the balance of my time. being performed while the victims are court. The doctor thought it through me- f still alive, numbering in the tens of thodically. Maybe the police didn’t want this thousands. prisoner to talk because he had been a de- HOUR OF MEETING ON TOMORROW Furthermore, foreign companies are ranged killer, a thug, or mentally unstable. Mr. CANTOR. Mr. Speaker, I ask already making investments to benefit After all, the Chinese penal system was a unanimous consent that when the off of the thriving organ transplant daily sausage grinder, executing hardcore House adjourns today, it adjourn to market. Pharmaceutical companies criminals on a massive scale. Yes, the young meet at 11 a.m. tomorrow, and further, like Roche and Isotechnika Pharma doctor knew the harvesting was wrong. have been involved in clinical drug Whatever crime had been committed, it when the House adjourns on that day, would be nice if the prisoner’s body were al- it adjourn to meet at noon on Monday, testing of transplant patients. A Brit- lowed to rest forever. Yet was his surgical December 12, 2011, for morning-hour de- ish firm, TFP Ryder Healthcare, is pro- task that different from an obstetrician’s? bate and 2 p.m. for legislative business. posing a medical facility that would in- Harvesting was rebirth, harvesting was life, The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. clude an organ transplant center. as revolutionary an advance as antibiotics or RIGELL). Is there objection to the re- Before they follow suit, U.S. compa- steroids. Or maybe, he thought, they didn’t quest of the gentleman from Virginia? nies must understand the unethical cli- want this man to talk because he was a po- There was no objection. mate that exists in China. And our litical prisoner. Nineteen years later, in a secure European f State Department and the U.N. must location, the doctor laid out the puzzle. He treat these actions as an abuse of Chi- asked that I keep his identity a secret. Chi- EXTEND THE MIDDLE CLASS TAX na’s international agreements and CUT nese medical authorities admit that the human rights of their own people. lion’s share of transplant organs originate (Ms. BERKLEY asked and was given [From WeeklyStandard.com, Dec. 5, 2011] with executions, but no mainland Chinese doctors, even in exile, will normally speak of permission to address the House for 1 THE XINJIANG PROCEDURE performing such surgery. To do so would re- minute and to revise and extend her re- (By Ethan Gutmann) marks.) mind international medical authorities of an To figure out what is taking place today in Ms. BERKLEY. Mr. Speaker, I rise issue they would rather avoid—not China’s a closed society such as northwest China, soaring execution rate or the exploitation of today on behalf of Nevada’s middle sometimes you have to go back a decade, criminal organs, but rather the systematic class families. Because of the economic sometimes more. elimination of China’s religious and political downturn, thousands of Nevadans are One clue might be found on a hilltop near prisoners. Yet even if this doctor feared con- struggling to find a job, pay their rent, southern Guangzhou, on a partly cloudy au- sequences to his family and his career, he did and put food on their families’ tables. tumn day in 1991. A small medical team and not fear embarrassing China, for he was born They cannot afford a tax increase. a young doctor starting a practice in inter- into an indigenous minority group, the However, Washington gridlock is nal medicine had driven up from Sun Yat-sen Uighurs. Medical University in a van modified for sur- Every Uighur witness I approached over threatening just that, a massive tax in- gery. Pulling in on bulldozed earth, they the course of two years—police, medical, and crease on middle class families. Why? found a small fleet of similar vehicles— security personnel scattered across two con- Because some Washington Republicans clean, white, with smoked glass windows and tinents—related compartmentalized frag- refuse to roll back special tax breaks prominent red crosses on the side. The police ments of information to me, often through for Wall Street millionaires in order to had ordered the medical team to stay inside halting translation. They acknowledged the pay for a middle class tax cut for 1.2 for their safety. Indeed, the view from the risk to their careers, their families, and, in million Nevadans. That’s just not side window of lines of ditches—some filled several cases, their lives. Their testimony right. in, others freshly dug—suggested that the reveals not just a procedure evolving to meet hilltop had served as a killing ground for So my message today is this: no holi- the lucrative medical demand for living or- years. gans, but the genesis of a wider atrocity. day vacation for Congress without ex- Thirty-six scheduled executions would Behind closed doors, the Uighurs call their tending the middle class tax cut. We translate into 72 kidneys and corneas divided vast region in China’s northwest corner (bor- cannot go home while Nevada families among the regional hospitals. Every van con- dering on India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, are hurting and desperate for this ex- tained surgeons who could work fast: 15–30 Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and tension of their payroll tax cuts. minutes to extract. Drive back to the hos- Mongolia) East Turkestan. The Uighurs are However, that’s going to require pital. Transplant within six hours. Nothing ethnically Turkic, not East Asian. They are Washington Republicans to stop pro- fancy or experimental; execution would Muslims with a smattering of Christians, probably ruin the heart. and their language is more readily under- tecting Wall Street millionaires and With the acceleration of Chinese medical stood in Tashkent than in Beijing. By con- start putting Nevada’s families first. expertise over the last decade, organs once trast, Beijing’s name for the so-called Auton- The only fair way to achieve this is to considered scraps no longer went to waste. It omous Region, Xinjiang, literally translates roll back special tax breaks for Wall wasn’t public knowledge exactly, but Chi- as ‘‘new frontier.’’ When Mao invaded in 1949, VerDate Mar 15 2010 03:32 Dec 09, 2011 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00035 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K08DE7.094 H08DEPT1 smartinez on DSK6TPTVN1PROD with HOUSE H8300 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE December 8, 2011 Han Chinese constituted only 7 percent of ing his head.