CNBC: House sends China sanctions bill to Trump’s desk as tensions escalate
* The House of Representatives on Wednesday passed legislation condemning China for the detention and torture of Uighur Muslims in the country’s western region of Xinjiang as tensions between the U.S. and China continue to escalate.
* The legislation passed by a vote of 413-1 after passing overwhelmingly in the Senate earlier this month. It will now head to President Donald Trump, who has not said whether he intends to sign it into law.
The House of Representatives on Wednesday passed legislation calling for sanctions against Chinese officials for the detention and torture of Uighur Muslims in the country’s western region of Xinjiang as tensions between the U.S. and China continue to escalate.
The legislation was approved by a vote of 413-1 after passing overwhelmingly in the Senate earlier this month. It will now head to President Donald Trump, who has not said whether he intends to sign it into law.
The vote was the first to take place under temporary rules established this month to allow representatives to cast their ballots by proxy, as a precaution against the spreading coronavirus. Republicans have brought a suit against Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi challenging proxy voting as unconstitutional.
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Who voted against it?
ReplyDeleteThomas Massie voted against it?
ReplyDelete"Often being the sole member of the House to vote "no", Politico dubbed him "Mr. No" in 2014"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Massie
"On May 4, 2017, Massie was the sole House member to vote against sanctions on North Korea, which the final vote was 419–1."
"In July 2019, Massie was the only Republican among 17 members of Congress who voted against a House resolution opposing efforts to boycott the State of Israel and the Global Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions."
"On November 20, 2019, Massie was the sole "no" vote in Congress on the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act of 2019, which he claimed was an "escalation" with the People's Republic of China."
Massie is smart. He went to MIT.
He is principled. As principled as he is I think he is ornery for the sake of sticking out.
His vote against Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act of 2019 seems to me that he is not very brave. My opinion.
I have problems with the CNC reporting (or most reporting). The Bill was passed and they could not give the name of the bill in the article once?
One person voted against it and on an electronic page they could find room to mention who voted against it or why?
The Bill started back in August 2019. And so it was not driven solely by the corona virus outbreak.
The Bill is looks weak. It may be just a fists step and be judicious.
"Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act"
"The Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act of 2020 (formerly Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act of 2019) is a bill in the United States Congress that would require various United States government bodies to report on the treatment of Uyghurs in Xinjiang, China, including internment in the Xinjiang re-education camps."
Introduced in the Senate as S. 178 by Marco Rubio (R-FL) on January 17, 2019
To do anything right, you need scouting. So this bill does that(?). We already know what the PRC is doing.
Next you have to sell a proposed action to the public, if you want to do anything.
Or maybe it many not matter. You dig deeper into the history of WW2 and you find there were a lot of strikes and one reason that there were not more is because the Left was happy that the USSR was our ally. There would have been more strikes and a lot of unrest during WW2 if Uncle Joe had not been an ally.