Senate Proceeding 04-21-09 on Apr 21st, 2009 :: 1:23:35 to 1:30:05
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Sam Brownback: and the senate then legislative session. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection, so ordered. mr. rry: i thank the chair and i thank my colleague and i will -- i yield the floor according to the u a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: senator from kansas. a senator: mr. president, i agreed to

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Speech By: Sam Brownback

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Sam Brownback: request to try it move this somewhat on forward. mr. brownback: i do believe this has been a healthy debate. i think it is good to discuss what has taken place in north korea an discuss human rights. any time that we can do that, it is a good thing for us to discuss that setting moving into iraq and the north korean -- and

1:24:14 to 1:24:35( Edit History Discussion )

Sam Brownback: the human rights concerns there. i do want to address a few things that the senator from massachusetts ised one is on the north korean human rights act. i was the autho of that bill. i know that bill. i worked to get that bill through. i pushed hard to get it through. one of the things in that bill was $20 million was under the north korean human rights act for the use of the

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Sam Brownback: north korean human rights act and resettle refugees in north korea to the united states and for a number of other issues. the administration has not requested a single dime under that authorization. didn't ask for a appropriation. so the idea that we've implemented the north korean human rights act with no money was requested underneath that i

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Sam Brownback: guess i'm impressed that that could take place. i hope the government can do that well inany other areas where they don't ask for any money and they fully comply with the act. i don't think the act was fully complied with. i've stated that specifically here on the record and in places that i do not believe it was complied with. many people have been reset

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Sam Brownback: million dollar the united states under this north korean human rights act. it is a very small number in the toss -- dozens at most. a lot of hesitation, hiccups taking place, the state department not -- not pushing or working with us. a number of refugees could have been resettled here by communities in the united states. this is actually one piece that

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Sam Brownback: could have cheaply because the korean american community here would have resettled them without cost to the federal government. very few were received or brought to the uni and the chairman of the foreign relations committee, a distinguished gentleman from massachusetts, a lot of foreign

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Sam Brownback: policy experience, i admire all of that. i don't worked quite as much on the korean issue, certainly a much as some of the others have worked on, to say this is a successful negotiaon, i just think doesn't stand the overa

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Sam Brownback: just public's view, let ane from a diplomatic viewpoint. you look at this and say this is a successful negotiation that ambassador hill conducted with the six-party talks. when you look at what north korea has done since then and try to call that i don't think the japanese would call this a

1:26:44 to 1:27:05( Edit History Discussion )

Sam Brownback: successful negotiation when a missile was fired over their country, i don't think that the japanese would call it a ccessful negotiation when the abduct res take -- abductees taken from japan were not accounted for. i had the japanese embassy contacting my office complaining about the

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Sam Brownback: not included on the top issues. why are they having to go through me? because they can't chris hill what kind of diplomat is that when he has troub with one of the main allies on a very specific item and issue that you can at least keep them tuned in and coming along with the overall iss china is one of the members of

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Sam Brownback: the six-party talks and china has been one of the problems with us dealing with north korea. and, yet, we don't even push the chinese on no korean human rights. we don't demand that the u.n. human rights commissioner on human rights be allowed into china to determine are these north korean refees coming into china?

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Sam Brownback: are they economic m migrants. we don't look to see what status is. we don't push them in the six-party talks or at the u.n. complete failure at this. i've had some of the refugees, the few that made it out of north korea to the united states, many more made it out of north korea to the united states, it is harder of china than into our country.

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Sam Brownback: i had a couple of interviewed in our office, the talked about the conditions in china for the north korean regees. several hun thousand probably -- hundred thousand probably there, stateless, not protected. many women are are captured and sold in china, captured like wild animals and

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Sam Brownback: face, we don't push the chinese to allow this individual -- even though the chinese signed the declaration on this, we don't get that done. that is not a success. the north korean recently abducted two americans on the north korean-chinese border, that's has taken place, we don't object to that.

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Sam Brownback: they're developing part of the syrian nuclear reactor. we don't get information on that. we waive the terrorism list. we get nothing out of this deal and that is called a successful negotiation? i wonder what we will call successful negotiations in iraq then if that's what we're calling a successful negotiation with the north koreans and the six-party pawks.

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Sam Brownback: i wonder what -- talks. i wonder what we call successful human rights in iraq when we see the human rights record of what is taking place in north korea. i wonder how that will be viewed. for all of those reasons, mr. president, i have -- i think this has been a healthy debate for us to have.

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Sam Brownback: i hope the supplemental comes up we do not waive the sanctions on north korea. that will come up in front of this body. it is an annual waiver that will have to take place. i hope we as a body do not fund north korea beyond humanitarian assistance. that will come up in the supplemental. i want to lay these markers down for my colleagues.

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Sam Brownback: i hope people are watching for this.