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Rep. Chris Smith urges White House strategy for Americans detained in China, introduces HR text
Summary
Rep. Chris Smith told the House Foreign Affairs Committee that U.S. citizens face harsh treatment in China and described legislation (cited in the transcript as HR 54 91) to push a presidential strategy for Americans unjustly detained there.
Representative Chris Smith (R–N.J.) told the House Foreign Affairs Committee that his bill — identified in the hearing transcript as the "Nelson Wells and Dawn Michelle Hunt unjustly detained in Communist China Act, HR 54 91" — would require the White House to develop a strategy to assist Americans held in China.
"This piece of legislation, would call for the president to devise…
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